{"id":586,"date":"2010-08-10T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/price-comparisons\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:14","slug":"price-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/price-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I am not sold on the Mac Mini is the price. &#0160;Right at $800 after VGA cable and Apple Care. &#0160;Okay, I rarely buy extended warranties so that might not be fair. &#0160;I need to see what I get with it.<\/p>\n<p>Recently have been playing with a Lenovo Laptop which was priced right at $450. &#0160;For my $450, I got 4 meg of memory, a 64 bit operating system, 260 hard drive, a keyboard AND a display. &#0160;A wide screen display, but yeah, I can&#39;t use that display for anything else.<\/p>\n<p>It came with some software not a lot.<\/p>\n<p>However, the MacMini comes with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iTunes &#8212; whole business model I dislike<\/li>\n<li>iPhoto (most cameras these days do that)<\/li>\n<li>iMovie (which is above the equivalent of the various versions of Movie Maker<\/li>\n<li>Garage Band<\/li>\n<li>Time Machine<\/li>\n<li>Front Row (which I think plays trailers)<\/li>\n<li>iDVD<\/li>\n<li>chess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything else is pretty comparable between the two.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, as an internet device, the Mac Mini works very well, but the old Mac Mini&#39;s still do that too.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I am not sold on the Mac Mini is the price. &#0160;Right at $800 after VGA cable and Apple Care. &#0160;Okay, I rarely buy extended warranties so that might not be fair. &#0160;I need to see what I get with it. Recently have been playing with a Lenovo Laptop which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}