Apple seems to have quietly upgraded the Mac mini models, as reported by “SuperG” over on MacBidouille:
I have ordered a Mac mini Core solo with 1GB of RAM last Saturday to use it as a server, and what a surprise when I received the box!
My Mac mini has been upgraded:
– Core Duo 1.66GHz instead of Core Solo 1.5GHz
– HD 100GB instead of 60GB
– and a SuperDrive instead of a Combo!
On the box, the specifications are those of a Mac mini Core Solo…
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: This type of “stealth upgrade” is not unprecedented. Apple did the very same thing with the Mac mini last September (Apple upgrades Mac mini without announcement – September 29, 2005). As ThinkSecret reported Tuesday in their article Mac mini update on the horizon, “In September 2005, Apple bumped the top-end Mac mini from 1.42GHz to 1.5GHz and included a faster SuperDrive and more video memory, but never advertised the improved specifications. Instead, Apple commented that the box specifications represent what customers can expect at the minimum, and that some Mac minis may be better equipped. The peculiar move was seen as a means of clearing inventory of the older model without cutting prices.”
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Best Buy currently lists all Apple iMac and Mac mini models as ‘sold out’ – August 25, 2006
New Apple Mac mini imminent? – August 24, 2006
Apple upgrades Mac mini without announcement – September 29, 2005
I swore I’d never do this, but since my timing is everything…
1rst post!
Anticlimatic
Couldn’t this have just been a mistake? What evidence is there that Apple is upgrading all the Macminis?
anaknipedro,
Try reading the MacDailyNews Note.
Just another reason why Apple kicks a$$.
Its like finding 20 bucks in your pocket that you didn’t know you had!
Could these improvements been part of the original launch? The answer is a resounding YES, YES, YES.
Apple is increasingly taking advantage of over-anxious customers.
It’s a practice that will ruin any chance for any material increase in market share.
stealth upgrade the video card and I will buy one!
Wow, Pete, talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth! I didn’t think it was possible to turn that news into a negative, but you managed. Bravo.
MW “green” – more computer for the same amount of green–I dunno but it sounds like a good thing to me.
Who cares about mac mini, it is a useless product unless you are on of the 1 in a zillion nerds with hobbies to play with little computers, the whole reason apple did not make an announcement about it is obviously because barely anyone purchases a mac mini.
according to apple they sell 1 mac mini per month.
that was a fluke!
You, sir, are a retard… or a good troll
USELESS:
How about backing up your USELESS comment with a link to your faulty logic?
Useless: You are correct, you are useless.
I have one. My mother has one. And two of my friends have them.
This upgrade is not on the Apple website.
always Right,
I wish you’d kept your promise!
There’s nothing so boring or so childish as the silly first-posters.
This is definitely a wrong order. Somehow the order numbers got screwed. There’s no way in hell that someone’s going to get every single item bumped up like that.
A friend of mine ordered an iPod Nano and got a black iPod 60GB video. One stupid, although likely true, anecdote deserves another.
Is it just me or has everyone noticed this new negative tone in many of the posters on MDN? Is this a result of Apples recent success?
It just seems that we have more people here that want to take shots at Apple than we used to. Are you guys just pissed off PC users that have nothing better to do with your time?
No, the tone you see is due to the fact that APPLE is now WINPLE – the same quality, the same attitude, the lies, the same everything…oh wait – its because Apple IS WINDOWS now..that explains it.
Thank GOD for Android.
Apple has been one nitemarish experience. I kept thnking my mac was just a dud, so I got another & thot…WOW, I’m pretty unlucky – THIS mac is crasp too.
But, being a loyal mac user…I got another one..& an iphone[my 3rd replacement sinse january & counting] – they were just as bad.
I got to the point where I was saying – ‘well, at least there’s apple-care’ Well, not anymore there isn’t – you just try to get Apple to admit they’ve made a mistake and see how it goes.
And you had better be prepared to start REALLY lioke being screwed by Apple because if you don’t show good cheer and delight when you’re getting hammered from behind, then they say your case is – RESOLVED.
Oh, did I not mention the ipad I bought? Well, we all need the final straw & this was what finally penetrated the Apple myth – because Stevie the aids ridden wonder boy doesn’t like Flash – none of us duped mac owners get to see anything on the internet with their nice new useless piece of crap.[Blackberry has a nice unit tho].
So if THAT’s not enuff to warn off any prospective buyers – good goddamn luck because theyu’re obviously so stupid that they’re gonna need all the luck they can get.
macmini….ahhh…the computer to bring Apple to the masses of PC users….
whyohwhy would one buy amacmini?
ikeep looking at them when i goto the apple store, thinking why, give me a reason why i would buy it?,then my eyes swing over to the other great offerings by apple and shake my head…why waste one´s money on a macmini?
buy a Mac notebook, iMac – great computers…the macmini…erggh. its like somebody originally had a great idea for this – sometype of communications center perhaps and then the followthrough was shelved…if the macmini disappeared would anyone care?
Wonder what folks who ordered the ‘better’ config with the Core Duo chip got?
We’re used to Pete’s negativity. SNL does a skit about him called Debbie Downer.
He wouldn’t be happy if you gave him a blow job. He’d want a handjob instead. Of course, if you’d given him a handjob he would complain that it wasn’t a blowjob.
Good thing for him is he’s also a loner…he doesn’t have to worry he’s not getting a bj or an hj.
88
“Are you guys just pissed off PC users that have nothing better to do with your time?”
No, pissed off Mac owners (recall my battery please) that like to listen to whiners like you. Once you get a lemon from Apple (twice now for me) you suddenly get to see the side of Apple that you thought was never there. the shine is off the apple.
Jerry T: “Of course, if you’d given him a handjob he would complain that it wasn’t a blowjob.”
Well, Jerry T, we now know how limited your sex life is…don´t worry, there is nothing wrong with being gay.
Nice of course to get more computer than you expected. But if you’re in the market for a Core Duo 1.66 mini, it would be awful to pay the Core Duo price only to find you could get the same thing for much less money.
Makes sense for Apple, but the savvy consumer beware.
to pete:
NO these could not have been part of the original launch. Intel just lowered their prices. They can AFFORD more than they could 8 months ago.
You think Apple should have taken a loss for 8 months?
Hey, I love my Mac mini. It kicks ass. Right now it’s the control unit for my home media center, the communications center for video iChating with my relatives accross the state and it’s my personal webserver (and soon to be ftp and mail server as soon as I set everything up). So, what can you do with a Mini? Turns out, you can do a lot!
Useless, why don’t you hook your useless mac mini into your DVI compatible TV and view your computer full resolution, surf the web, DVD’s, iPhoto slideshows, etc, etc, etc. Spring for a wireless keyboard and laser mighty mouse and you will never have to take your fat ass and fat mouth off the couch.