of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic Apple.
Given the number of people who have been wating for this, and what do you give us? A slightly larger hard drive and an extra USB Port. At least give the damn thing dedicated graphics, because you certainly don't include anything else.
I was actually waiting for this one, it was perhaps going to be my first foray into the Apple cult, as it were. But seeing what pitiful specs this has, and for what will probably be somewhere around 1500 dollars here in Australia, I'd much rather get a Studio Hybrid.
I was going to go for the Hybrid too. But I'd much prefer the DDR3/Nvidia mini to the DDR2/Intel
I would have thought the 9400M counts as a dedicated graphics. But yes, don't we all want more power for the premium price?
I'm pretty sure the 9400M is integrated. It shares the RAM with the processor.
Pathetic was the word that came to my mind too. When I'd originally read about the mini retool, I was excited. I've been looking for an excuse to get a mac and I thought this would be the way to do it. After reading the specs, I almost feel like Apple is trying to insult people. This is like thinking you were getting an Xbox 360 for Christmas and unwrapping it only to find a Virtual Boy instead.
I think deep down Apple want to kill this machine off.
They also added HDCP support (which might allow more HiDef content playback) and 802.11n.
Still, I agree, the price is awful.
Same here man, I though the mac mini retool would be the one that make me switch to mac again. But this is a huge slap in the face. It's expensive, slow and under spec-ed. A sub $600 acer notebook is better spec-ed and faster, not to mention looks better too.
The default price of a studio hybrid is lower ($449), but that's with a Pentium CPU - to upgrade to a T6400 takes you up to $549. Not that much of a difference and it's lacking bluetooth, OS X. I'm not sure if the X3100 in the Dell is better or worse than the mini.
I see lots of posts saying that it's possible to build your own box with the same specs for $300, but no one actually lists the components. I'd like to see that because I baulk at paying $600 as well.