BasicAppleGuyJan 11, 2023

January 11, 2005: Apple Announces the Mac mini
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Mac mini: B.Y.O.D.K.M
Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, & Mouse

The Mac mini was introduced at MacWorld ’05 for $499.
It featured a 1.25/1.42 GHz G4, 256MB RAM, 40-80GB HDD, & came pre-installed with Mac OS X Panther (10.3).

Show threadChris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
@BasicAppleGuy Kinda mind blowing to remember that Apple was locked into product intros at MacWorld, which occurred after the Christmas holiday, and built their release schedule around them. I always wanted to know what a parallel universe would be like for Apple sales where they always released products on their current schedule (March, June, Sept, Oct/Nov). Feels like Christmas ‘04 coulda had a lot of minis under the tree
Jan 12, 2023 at 1:28amWeb
Show threadBasicAppleGuyJan 12, 2023
@chrisgervais they were just talking about that on MacBreak Weekly - about how MacWorld constrained Apple in many ways.
Show threadChris Gervais 🎸🥁💻Jan 12, 2023
@BasicAppleGuy ohhh, will have to listen in. Just such a strange part of history where Apple was still becoming the highly vertically integrated company we know now, all the way down to product intro timing. Was the same for other TechCos with CES and whatnot back in ye olden times