Cheap(?) Mac Mini

[ffutures]

Not sure how good an offer this is:

http://svp.co.uk/product/apple_mac_mini_(g4_125ghz_256mb_40gb)_44050

New Mac Mini G4 / 1.25GHz / 256MB / 40GB for £ 279.99 inc VAT

Says the operating system is Tiger, which of course isn't the latest, it's a PowerPC processor rather than the Intel one, and there's no screen, keyboard or mouse. Not something I'd want myself, unless the spec was considerably better, but maybe there's someone out there who can use something like this at this price.

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

My advice: don't bother. Entry level retail price on the current mac mini (which is hitting end of line, implying they're about to replace it) is £399 -- which is for a Core 2 Duo machine clocked at 1.83GHz, with about triple the performance, four times the memory (1Gb) and double the disk space (80Gb).

You can probably get an intel mac mini on eBay for about the same price as this old boiler (which has been out of production for over a year, IIRC).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

About what I thought - If I continue to go the Mac route I'll certainly be looking for Wintel compatibility, so this is no use for me anyway.