Seems like a pretty good deal for a pretty recent system and have seen people raving about the performance of these things. Don't have a use for one myself, but thought I'd share anyway.
Normally $999 from Apple, so $887 is a decent discount. eBay Plus is required for the code to work I believe.
Do you not need to prove or justify the education pricing for that one? If so, absolutely, good deal.
redeem gc into account and purchase online and get it delivered. No need to prove edu. Got a ipad mini last week at 719 and piad with 15% off gc
Where did you score 15% off Apple GC? I must have missed it! :(
@lostinsydney: last year before black Friday? Can't remember. Purchase 10k and redeemed into 2 accounts. Also from coles gift card website.
@lostinsydney: eh i mean not quite - banks haven't consistently offered 5%, and even if they did, moneys earned in interest would be subject to income tax.
@wellzi: If your cash is in HISA then yes the opportunity cost should be the post-tax equivalent.
But if cash is in offset account then the opportunity cost is the exact interest rate your home loan is at.
nice!
Which GC deal was 15% off?
Yeah thats exact what I did and i picked up the macbook pro m4pro yesterday. they didnt check anything in the store just checked drivers license and handed me my product. so easy
Do you have a child attending school? if yes then you should be eligible?
Yep. but only 3 yrs old. I do purchase for him but not for education only for entertainment. lol. anyway online purchase won't verify the eligibility of education.
The Apple on Campus store states it is for "current and newly accepted university students, parents buying for university students, and teachers and staff at all levels".
@axyh: I’m sure one your distance relatives will fit that criteria if it shit hits the fane. They don’t ask when you buy but I heard they sometimes ask if you take it back for repair under warranty.
@OzHan on my last purchase at Apple Miranda their employee said its for only uni and college students not for school. It wasn't a steep discount that time so I passed.
Nope, I ordered online on Tuesday and picked up instore this morning, no questions asked
its these responses that do stuff things up for people long term.. and they dont even realise it.
Word it another way my friend without the explicit nature
Nah, just as the description reads. No need for proof.
How do you get discount for Apple Gift Cards?
20 x EDR @ Woolies, or other GC Merchants like Macquarie Bank discounts etc
Yeah 5% off thru maqcuarie all year round or offers from other merchants worth more but you got to keep an eye out. Currently at coles worth 10% back to your flybuys account.
Overthinking it there, surely.
Just because something “works”, that doesn’t mean it’s legitimate.
@axyh: Yeah but morally this can't be an issue for you surely? With a top 3 largest company in the world?
Then logically, what's the worst that will happen if your order gets checked, cancellation and refund? Not a biggie
@axyh: don't be naïve. Apple know exactly what happening, they haven't fixed for a reason, we just don't know what it is, that's why we are looking for a bargain while they making millions per day.
@OzBerghainer: Plus, if taking into account that none of the biggest world companies do not hesitate to thief from all Australians by not paying their tax in Australia, which cost of billions $$.
Yeah but morally this can't be an issue for you surely?
What, fraud? Yes this is an issue for me. You may different, but don't think that everyone has the same lack of morals as you.
With a top 3 largest company in the world?
Morally, fraud is still fraud no matter who your victim is. Or are you now green lighting every Indian or Nigerian scammer because to them you are wealthy enough for them not to care?
@axyh: “Parents buying for university students…” you have a wildly strong moral compass. Good on you.
LOL. This is their workaround to discount and sell below RRP on their own store and selling lower than other stores (JB, HN, Myer, etc).
They do this openly, at least Microsoft … I was in the USA years ago at an official Microsoft store…when I told them I'm not a student..the store employee pretended to have seen my student ID and gave me edu discount.
Good point! JB have those 10% off Apple quite often
i bought a mac studio last year using the AOC discount, the store manager was the one that served me and when i asked if she needed to see any proof she didn't care. the reality is apple cares far less than you do.
Two things:
The most important one is: Make sure you buy your Mac with sufficient RAM. For most of the lower-end machines, this means 'not the standard amount'
As a Mac Geek, I recommend 24GB or more. This will give you two benefits: Speed and longevity. You cannot upgrade the RAM later, only at the time of purchase.
So that means for this model, you HAVE to buy it directly from Apple. EDU online store ok. You need to be a student, a student's parent, or a student's mate, etc, i.e. any individual can buy. no need to prove anything.
Second thing, yes, use Apple Gift cards to pay for it. Currently, you can purchase at Woolworths for ±10% back in EDR points.
Hope that helps.
Most here on Ozbargain will try to flog the base model for around the same price they paid $735 1 month before the M5 Mac Mini comes out. Most will sell at $600 and add $150 and buy the Mac Mini M5 (super cheap upgrade), vs paying $500 for 8GB of Ram and 256GB of SSD upgrades. The resale value is only high for the base model, once you add $500 (student pricing) for 24Gb of Ram and 512GB SSD, your resale loss is nearly all of the upgrade cost so $450 - $500 loss vs $0 - $150 for base model. Also it would suck if the M5 comes with 512GB SSD standard, it will flog the resale value of the upgraded model. Apple users are super mindful of resale values.
When Apple went from 8GB to 16GB I thought we'd left the RAM wars behind us.
The deal is so deceptive on eBay.. says 30% off with BFRI30 on a picture with the Mac Mini, but if you use it it limits it to $100 off.
bro renders
yeah if you want to do a lot of heavy editing 16gb is not going to cut it for speed. if you doing big projects you would need at least 24gb But then again you wouldn't be looking at a mac mini you would most likely get a mac studio for that kind of stuff.
oh I missed the actual BFRI30 party
You literally didnt miss anything
I didn't even notice that one. I remember there was like a 50% for a weekend a year ago.
How would this handle Dota 2, and The Sims?
Or way better off getting a similar 4060 gaming PC?
as long as it's compatible, i think it would be fine. i played various games on my base m1 macbook air and it went OK. currently have an m3 pro and it also runs various things perfectly well.
Buying mac for gaming is something, you'll need to watch VLDL video about it.
this would be fine but dota is like 60BG.
That's a lot of bytegiga's
That level should be fine, the storage is the main issue, those types of games are close to 100GB nowadays.
Man I wish I had a use for this, it's such a good buy.
yeah for a general use desktop computer that would be great. Apples hardware will last ages
i've had my base m4 mac mini for a couple weeks now and man, it's such a steal. haven't done anything heavy on it yet, but i traded in my og m1 macbook air which i had sitting in a drawer and got it for like $400.
it's the perfect solution for me, and perhaps you too. my use case was to replace my m3 pro macbook pro as the wfh pig. it worked great for that, but having my personal stuff on there was too distracting. highly recommend picking one of these up as a laptop alternative if you are running a pretty low-key wfh setup from a personal laptop. takes up less space and everything!
I've had my M2 Mac Mini base model since launch. It's my daily driver for work (WFH). I tend to have lots of tabs open in Safari, Emails, PowerPoint, Excel, many VC calls etc. mostly all productivity use cases and I've never been able to get it to break a sweat. Everything I have read say the base model M4's are ball tearing and I really want an excuse to get one, but at this stage it would be such a first world move…
I use an iPad Pro as my road device when I have to put pants on.
I have a Macbook Air 15' which does both perfectly. iPad for me is only good for consumption not for productivity.
I find the iPad Pro productive when traveling. I have a Magic Keyboard. I take notes in meetings with the pencil, do powerpoint presentations where I draw on the slides, emails and web stuff on the go, watch TV/Movies in the hotel/plane.
@Link: It really depends on your workflow. For basic office tasks, an iPad might work fine. For video editing, coding, or other resource-intensive activities, it can feel limiting or less efficient. Multitasking isn’t as seamless as on a laptop. I had given up on iPad or tablets (for productivity) years ago but of course each to his own.
@OzHan: Agree, which is why I have the Mac mini where I spend most of my time. I certainly couldn't have the iPad be my only device.
@Link: I used to have a Mac Mini M1 (16GB) as well but sold it after a few months, as I still need a mobile device for portability and an iPad won't cut it. Keeping data synced between the two was more hassle than it was worth.
Its only base model in the name. 15000 geekbench multicore score is nothing to be sneezed at. To put it in perspective, it is faster than my M1 Max MacBook Pro! Got mine on the launch day as a home pc. Absolutely brilliant machine
Can I ask best price to get Apple TV 4K 3rd gen 128Gb with ethernet?
I was hesitate when macbook air M2 discounted.
Thankfully it this one goes down as well.
The base spec Mac Mini is a great buy if you can get by on the base specs. But if you double the RAM & storage you could buy a second base model again with the absurd Apple upgrade cost markups.
If you need to double the ram/storage that means Mac studio is a better deal for you. Mac mini is for people who are happy with the base specs.
The base Mac Studio with 32GB RAM & 512GB of storage is $3,300. $1400 over the same spec for RAM and storage in the Mini. The Studio is a far more capable machine though. To be honest 256GB is storage only useful for people that just use the machine for email & Office applications and store everything in the cloud. 256GB wouldn't even store my iTunes library. Good news is that the storage modules in the Mini are slotted so 3rd party upgrades should be coming and way cheaper. I've also already seen third party base docks for the new Mini form factor and they have have NVMe slots in them, USB-A slots & SD- Card readers in them. Plus they elevate the Mini a bit so you might be able to actually get your finger underneath for when you need to turn it on.
Mini are slotted so 3rd party upgrades should be coming and way cheaper. — Don't hold your breath yet, slotted yes but its proprietary. means can be protected by Apple to block any 3-rd party. docks are of course possible as its standard usb3/tb.
@OzHan: There are no special chips on the NAND modules other than the NAND chips themselves, which have tiny ICs that pair the chips to a device. They can be rewritten afaik, but Apple could block rewriting the internal data.
@FujinShu: I've seen storage systems only take specific brands of hard drives. If the hard drives are faulty you can only get replacement from the vendor.
Those base docks just connect via thunderbolt, so any decent NVMe exclosure will be fine for storage.
The AOC approach is $815.10 - and then you purchase with / combine with the 20x Everyday Rewards points from Woolies offer to get the apple gift cards - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/879916
815.10 - 81 ~= $734
For anyone wanting extra storage, Satechi has announced for a dock which allows for m.2 SSDs. No idea how the power button works or the pricing (but would cheaper than paying apple for 1gb).
I have two of the old mac mini ones, they are super useful, but wonder if theyll be $80 still
I predict $150 to $200. Needs to be cheaper than the device + 1TB vs the $300 upgrade to 512GB or $600 1TB.
you can also upgrade the internal storage in the future when they bring out the modules next year for 512 and 1tb
True but from what I saw those modules are not standard m.2 SSDs and require some backwards engineering to get past the protections Apple put in.
o they will work it out OWC always comes out with that custom type stuff for almost every mac to date. if you can replace it they will most likely make a part for it.
Is this easy to do?
apparently it is there is a few how too videos on youtube on how to do it now. All they need to do now is sell the modules.
@kungfuman: The old old one was fairly easy, you popped off the case and removed the wifi card I think and then swapped it. Hopefully its easy and doesn't void warranty
@UberIsCool: yep its about the same process you don't' have to go that many layers too.
the bottom snaps off. and snaps back on.
Anyone feeling safari is bit slower than ms edge browser in a m4 mac mini?
Whats a mid priced 27” monitor to pair with one of these?
Nothing fancy, first time mac user and will be using it as a family desktop computer to tie in with phones, ipads etc.
Dell. 27” 4K usb c.
Best value monitor.
Great adjustability.
R&D must have been drunk/high when they designed this mac with 16GB Ram
if no apple AI, they would have released with 8GB
If apple AI needed 512GB SSD they would have upped that too lol
You can choose higher ram options.
don't for get guys the mac mini base M1 has upgradeable storage in it.
so when third party start making storage for it, you will be able to install it yourself.
be good when they come out with the storage modules so you can update it.
Happy to assist anyone as I’m in education
Just a note, MacOS is not designed for 4K monitors (99.99% of ultra HD monitors available) unless you are happy with 1080P level of screen realestate at 4K. 4K only true scales to 1080P at 'Retina quality'. You need a 5K monitor for true 1440P scaling. Why go against the industry standard? Because Apple.
mmmm… I don't think so…
1) Hardware, as in graphics card, determines what resolutions are supported by the computer it is installed in.
2) Different Macs have different graphics cards, with the newest ones tend to offer more options than much older models.
3) Mac OS is designed to support hardware that is available when the version is released, and updates cater to newer hardware.
4) I have been using and supporting Macs since 1985 (yes, I am an old fart) and have never encountered the issue you claim above with any brand of third-party monitor. Period. Happy to help you resolve any issue you have.
I use a 32" 4K monitor with my MBP and I can comfortably pick custom resolutions in between 100 - 150% scaling and I have no issues with image quality or rendering. Everything still looks clear and sharp
I use mine with a Dell 27inch 4k monitor and everything is absolutely perfect. What are you on about?
I think this Youtube video covered this topic well if anyone wondering what monitor to use and how to handle this scaling challenge.
![[eBay Plus] Apple Mac Mini M4 (10-Core, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) $887 Delivered @ MacApp eBay](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/30/880730.jpg?h=8a4e1b19)
Buy it through AOC:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/874044
$815.10
(and use Apple Gift Cards, if you want it cheaper)