How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

[Alex Hewitt]

Kenny Lussier wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Hewitt_Tech <hewitt_tech at comcast.net 
> <mailto:hewitt_tech at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>      What bugged me about the way Apple sells the Mini is their deliberate
>     withholding of information from the customer so that the customer
>     would
>     feel obligated to buy much more expensive gear from them. Check out
>     their web site and see if you can figure out what would be
>     necessary to
>     get the Mini setup using an existing monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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>     -Alex
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>     P.S. There's "making money" and then there's "screwing the customer".
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> I just spent about 30 seconds on their site, and found the Mac Mini 
> tech specs. You need this: 
> http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4NTYxMDQ 
> <http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4NTYxMDQ> 
> . As for a mouse and keyboard, since it has 5 USB ports, you don't 
> need anything. 
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> C-Ya,
> Kenny
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>  
Wow! I'm impressed. It took me a lot longer to track the bugger down. 
Whether or not a customer would know that they needed it would be 
another matter. The people on this list really aren't the target audience.

In general though I think the Mac Mini is one system that Apple sells 
that is a pretty decent buy. If you buy a similar small system, the 
Aopen miniPC, by the time you add all the parts that you need and buy an 
OEM copy of Windows you will spend at least another $200 or so for a 
working system. The Aopen miniPC is reliable but so is the Mac Mini.

-Alex