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

[William Fragakis]

one never buys extra ram from Apple if possible. After-market ram is 
substantially cheaper. Sometimes in a refurb, you get a silent upgrade 
of more ram, etc. Many refurbs are display models or ones used at 
expos, etc, not necessarily something that crashed, burned and is being 
pushed out the door again.

I've seen some cheap G4 refurbs in the last few months if you don't 
mind running a superdrive (dvd-burner) from firewire. When you start 
adding airport, superdrive, etc, they start to get pricier.

wf
On Feb 28, 2006, at 8:31 PM, 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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