[UK] Mac Mini, right now, but from where?

[forster]

OK - I have my Mac Mini ordered from Apple, but I dont fancy having to wait another 3 weeks for it being built and shipped.

Suggestions on where to get one within a few days?

As far as I know, there are no local apple stores around here, and eBay came up with nothing except importers.

Suggestions?

Would it be possible to call up, say, a London Apple Store, ask what they have in stock, and they send it to me?

[QuarterSwede]

You're most likely going to have to wait. Apple is having a lot of trouble just filling the orders.

[Xeo]

Why don't you wait? Many people are in the same situation as you and they wait. Just be patient my friend because good things come to those who wait!

[forster]

Why don't you wait? Many people are in the same situation as you and they wait. Just be patient my friend because good things come to those who wait!

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Because my pockets are burning !

Im sat here infront of a god awful 17" CRT, with a hella big and loud PC at my feet - I WANT SWEET MAC GOODNESS !

:cry:

[forster]

Well, the delay is apparently because the MM is a custom build, whereas the standard models are ready to send 'next working day'.

So I'll be cancelling my main order and ordering via a reseller that can get me my goods next day (hopefully Wednesday if I order tomorrow).

Couple this with a stick of 1gb memory and I (should) be flying.

Speaking of which, can anyone verify that this RAM would be OK in the 1.25ghz model Mac Mini?

My only real physical upgrade to the system is going to be memory (hdd would be nice, but I can get an external firewire setup going for cheaper than a 2.5" laptop drive).

Verification from those 'in the know' would be great, or feel free to answer in this thread.

[forster]

I apologise for the triple posting, but this may help someone who, like me, cant be arsed to wait around for Apple to ship their hardware.

As you can see from the posts above, I'm quite an impatient person. My original order was made at the end of January, and a fortnight later, its still going to be best part of three weeks for it to be arriving at my doorstep. So I figured I would try and get one sooner, and it's amazing what you can do with littlle effort !

First things first, go to the Apple Stores (in the UK, their sites are listed here.

I was originally told by one of the stores that Apple only had available their stock 1.25 / 1.42 systems available for immediate sale, any custom builds would be 4-5 weeks, so I endeavoured to try all of the stores to see if I could get a stock system and order the memory seperately and install it myself (you wouldnt believe the earache I got having this discussion with one of the Apple tech's, you know, I'm not sawing the arm off your first born child, just doing a little self upgrading) hence the post above this one.

So I rang round the rest of the stores this morning, and hit lucky, I only really wanted 512 memory, 40gig hdd is fine considering it's relatively slow, (I'll get a nice big external hdd at some point to run via firewire) of course being told that only the stock systems were being sold (256meg mem - eesh) I was really suprised when the young lady at Computer Warehouse could ship me out a custom build on next day delivery !

Bottom line being, I'll be the proud owner of a Mac Mini this time tomorrow :happy:

No more masseeeve PC, no more cruddy 17" CRT, just pure Mac Goodness :)

So, in conclusion, if you cant be bothered to wait, ring around the resellers, and you might just hit lucky.

[S.MULLA]

thats good news- please post pics when u get it.. :D

[Steve]

Good work dude. :)

[forster]

Well, it arrived in under 24 hours - bargain !

Will take some pictures at the weekend probably, just picked up a temporary lcd while I wait for funds to buy a 20", OS X is definately going to take some getting used to, currently downloading updates and installing iLife 05, as well as installing apps and looking at the different themes via shapeshifter.

Definately glad I bought it, a little more playing and I should never need a Windows machine again :)

[Rix]

You lucky git, Congrats on the mini :happy:

[[ timko ]]

Definately glad I bought it, a little more playing and I should never need a Windows machine again :)

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Ahh, so this is why you was selling off a load of PC gear earlier this year in Neobay then? I thought you was going to go the AMD64 route :)

[forster]

Nah, I still have a ?300 PC to get rid of but so far no takers://

Ill go 64 if I get bored of the Mac, but I really really cant see that happening !

[dissonation]

Computer Warehouse is walking distance from my house, I gets all my Mac stuff there :D

[S.MULLA]

Ill go 64 if I get bored of the Mac, but I really really cant see that happening !

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you cant get bored of OSX.. :D ... if you do wanna go for 64bit then you can always go for the G5 duals.. :yes:

[forster]

you cant get bored of OSX..  :D  ... if you do wanna go for 64bit then you can always go for the G5 duals..  :yes:

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Wheyaye - I've got two grand in my back pocket :rolleyes: ;)