[ale] OT New thread -new iMacs- Joe's question

[Raylynn Knight]

I went to buy an iMac for my daughter's birthday and ended up with a
Mini Mac because they no longer had any 17" G5 iMac's and I refuse to
buy the Intel iMac's as I predict it will be less than 60 days before
they are hit with spyware and viruses originally targeted at x86 Windows
boxes and modified just enough to run on the Intel Macs.  I was very
impressed with the amount of software delivered with the Mini Mac, my
daughter is already going crazy over the things she can do with iLife
'06.


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:31 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
> Sounds like you have a good plan there.
> 
> I noticed that "upgrade" doesn't seem to be an option when ordering a  
> refurb unit too.   I suppose they have them refurbed boxed and ready  
> to ship.  Opening the box and installing upgrades would ad to the  
> handling cost.  I always thought memory was cheaper other places any  
> way.
> 
> It is hard to beat the price of a Mac Mini when you consider the  
> features.
> 
> 
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Joe Knapka wrote:
> 
> > Mark Wright wrote:
> >
> >> [lots of interesting stuff about Macs]
> >
> > Hey Mark,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your reply.
> >
> > Last week my wife Ani's homebuilt Fedora Core 2 box started making  
> > those
> > whiny "my CPU fan is about to bite it" noises, and as it's about 8  
> > years
> > old I decided to take it out of service. I replaced it with a shiny  
> > new
> > Mac Mini, with which she's very happy so far. And for $630, I'm
> > pretty happy too.
> >
> > In a few months the Mini is going to my daughter, and Ani will get a
> > refurb iBook (or a new one, if I can afford it). Only thing about the
> > refurbs
> > that I don't like is that it doesn't seem possible to order  
> > upgrades (eg
> > 256M->512M RAM) when placing the order through apple.com.
> >
> > -- JK
> >
> >
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