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Best price on a Mac Mini before or after MWSF?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Should I pull the trigger now on a $599 refurb'd Mac Mini with Superdrive?
Or will I likely get a better price after the MWSF keynote?
Just looking for best guesses from people more knowledgeable than I.
This is an auxiliary machine for my kid to use Final Cut Express & iTunes; so, I am looking for cheap, not latest/greatest.
Thanks!
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Mac Nut since before color Macs, working for UT Austin Microcenter supporting Mac users
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Do prices ever get worse with time?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2000
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Yes, if they announce a new Mac Mini, then they may quickly run out of refurb'd old ones ... at which point, the best price for a Mac with Superdrive might be $699 (current retail).
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Mac Nut since before color Macs, working for UT Austin Microcenter supporting Mac users
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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They'll always have more refurbs.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2002
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i would wait until after the keynote - there will be more refurbs and lower prices on new minis too - i'd be more worried about not getting your hands on a refurbed powerbook or something like that - are minis really selling that well????
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"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's."
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
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im also looking for a mac mini refurb but i think im going to have to save a lot more...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2005
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I'm thinking that the refurbs and the used minis will drop $100 instantly afterwards
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 1999
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Even if the rumors of 'aggressive' pricing on new Intel-based Macs is not true, would $100 off a G4 based mini be worth it when the new machines should offer performance close to, if not better than, current single-core G5 systems?
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I'm cookoo for Cocoa Apps!
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Its the whole bang for the buck theory... In that case maybe they will drop $200
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I'd get one without a superdrive and buy an extenal dvd burner later. The superdrives are not good drives.
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