Well, that sucks.

Not so much because the offer is gone but it's the display of knee-jerk indecisiveness that bothers me.

The marketing guy's boss sent an email that said "Do not go ahead with the Mini test drive." but the marketing guy accidentally thought he said "Do go ahead with the Mini test drive."

My brother has been asking me to build him a new computer. I priced it out and showed him that it would be cheaper to get the top of the line Mac Mini (w/ Superdrive, 17" LCD, keyboard, mouse, etc). He's nearly convinced. I was positive that trying the Mac Mini on this program would remove all doubt from his mind.

Sucks it isn't available anymore.


- Jon

I can't help but think there would be a significant amount of customers that would test drive the Mini (with the intention of test driving the whole Mac platform, not necessarily the Mini itself), then bring back the Mini for a refund which would then be applied to an iMac/iBook/PowerMac/PowerBook, etc.

NOT! <made ya read this .. tee hee>

Actually, I was just about to buy 10 of 'em and set up a node cluster for the fun of it for 25 days, then return 'em.

Oh, well.

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If they could make the mac mini slightly smaller, it would be a very nice looking paper weight.

If they made your brain slightly smaller, they would need a microscope to see it.

I come for the news, but the scathing verbal repartee is what keeps me here.

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I was hoping I could buy a cheaper refurbished Mac Mini that someone had returned.

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I was hoping I could buy a cheaper refurbished Mac Mini that someone had returned.

Which is probably why Apple had second thoughts about the program to begin with.

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I was hoping I could buy a cheaper refurbished Mac Mini that someone had returned.

That would be alot funnier if they didn't have refurb ones for sale right now at their online store.

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If they could make the mac mini slightly smaller, it would be a very nice looking paper weight.

Functional too as opposed to Windoze PCs which are JUST good boat anchors.

Well, if it really did get cancelled, that's retarded of Apple. It would have been a big hit.

I worked at an Apple dealership about 10 years ago when Apple tried this. It was a huge fiasco. That time they had a whole range of models you could try. We had people buying machines they couldn't afford and then returning them. The sales people would then lose their commission after having had to spend a good amount of time with these people. The store wasn't fully compensated for the returned systems, and couldn't resell them as new.
Doing it with just the mini makes more sense, and if it's just through Apple's own stores, they aren't screwing the independent dealers, but it cracks me up that they bailed on the program... Too much turn over in a company equals no institutional memory.