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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: |
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> Yes, the mini was upgraded a few months ago. $599 gives you a 1.5ghz |
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> Core Solo, 512mb, etc and $799 gives you a 1.66ghz Core Solo, 512mb, |
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That would be the Duo ;) |
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> etc. You can go up to 2GB. They have a mediocre intel inegrated |
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> graphics of some sort (something 950) but for the price it is fine. |
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> I ordered a refurb $1.66ghz Core Duo Mini for $699 and had a $200 Apple |
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> Store coupon from their Aperture price reduction rebate, so it ended up |
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> being $499. Can't complain about that. :-) (I plan on leaving OS X on |
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> it but you could probably run Linux on it as well. I have a Cocoa OS X |
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> app I developed that I need to make run on Intel OS X) |
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Where can you find the refurbs? That sounds like a very good deal. Did |
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it come with a 5200 RPM SATA drive? I have one of those in my laptop |
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and they are pretty speedy. Not as fast as my 7200 RPM SATA II, but |
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much, much better than the old 4200 IDE laptop drives. |
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> <http://www.apple.com/macmini/> |
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> Google should help you find folks running Linux on them and how they did |
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> it. |
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> best |
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> Chad |
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Jim |
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