{"id":243,"date":"2005-01-13T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2005-01-13T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T21:49:56","slug":"yeah-i-know-i-just-cant-shut-up-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Yeah I know, I just can&#8217;t shut up about this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Mac mini is upgradeable&#8230; by &#8220;an authorized Apple representative.&#8221;  In other words,  upgrading won&#8217;t be cheap.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/2005\/01\/news\/minioverview\/index.php\">this article<\/a> details some of the pricing structure for additional options.  Here&#8217;s what I don&#8217;t get: towards the bottom, doubling the RAM from 256Mb to 512MB will set you back an extra $75.  But going to 1 GB of RAM?  Well, that&#8217;ll cost you <strong>$425 extra<\/strong>.  <em><strong>ARE THEY NUTS?!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we want to belabor my earlier comparison: doubling the RAM to 1GB on the shuttle would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/app\/viewproductdesc.asp?description=20-220-001&#038;DEPA=1\">less than a fourth of the cost<\/a>.  Or I could put in two 1GB modules and go with double the RAM that the mini is capable of for about $410.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is clearly gouging its <del>lemmings<\/del>  users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s Mac mini upgrade prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}