The Mac’s Value Champ? A Mac mini Or A MacPro?
Look at the difference in prices between Macs. What do you see? A range from $599 to about $14,000. That’s a bare Mac mini to a loaded MacPro.
Then the Mac mini is the Mac Value Champ, right? Not so fast. Apple’s pricing methodology is a steady spread of features and dollars, all designed to get your money.
Frankly, the Mac mini is a lot of value for the money. It’s a full-fledged Mac. It’s got Mac OS X and iLife. Add iWork, a nice display, keyboard and mouse, and you have a formidable machine for most people. It’s.... (excerpted).
4 Reader Comments
worldweary said:
About 6 months with first Mac C2D 2 ghz refurb Mini. Love it.
Ed said:
I guess I fit the other end of the spectrum. I love my Mini and am waiting the arrival of my second one.
The first was a Solo Core and Tiger. It works great for what our family does - Music and Photos. I’ve never upgraded the RAM. And originally purchased a 17in monitor from CompUSA.
The new Mini is also the base model - except with Leopard. I do Web Site Design/Support and the app I use - RapidWeaver - is going to a separate version that is Leopard only. So this machine will be for “Dad” only use.
I like the Mini for the “out of my pocket” “immediate” expense. I can add the new peripherals as money allows.
PRO~DUAL~INTEL~3/GIGAHERTZ said:
I love my Mac Pro and it would be hard to down grade now. This was my first true Mac. Bought it stock over a year and a half ago. I have upped the ram from 2 gigs to four and I am thinking of going up one more time to six gigs. I replaced the original 250 gig hard drive that came with it for a western digital 500 gig that I have plans to swap again up to a 750 gig for my main start up. I recently deleted allot of stuff I had bought from I tunes such as t.v. shows to knock down some h.d. space (got rid of the t.v. shows that just sucked). The original 250 gig h.d. that came with my Mac is now a clone in h.d. bay 2 with only 36 gigs left on it.
I have one of the first generation Mac Books with a 1.8 g.h.z. processor in it and a gig of ram. It seems like a snail when comparing it to the Pro.
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spinaltap said:
In the longer-term I would stick with the Mini over the iMac. Why? Because when I upgrade my Mini during the summer I’ll only have to spend a comparatively small amount of money changing the CPU and not the screen and the CPU (in the case of the iMac).