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Finally bought a new Mac. First time in 12 years.
M1 Mini, scored for $539 open box. Have yet to fire it up. Also bought an Asus ProArt monitor so I'll have something to look at.
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when you 'leader!' yourself, it becomes a curse, isn't that right? I can't find the FAQ at the moment.
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Have I cursed my mini? Yikes! It will take me 86 years to beat.
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M1 Mini, scored for $539 open box.
Hopefully it didn't come from BestBuy!
No leader for you!
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MrNoBody wrote:
M1 Mini, scored for $539 open box.
Hopefully it didn't come from BestBuy!

No leader for you!
Why not BB? (It wasn't.)
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mrbigstuff wrote:
Finally bought a new Mac. First time in 12 years.
M1 Mini, scored for $539 open box. Have yet to fire it up. Also bought an Asus ProArt monitor so I'll have something to look at.
Microcenter deal? I bought an open box from there for that price
Just be careful - the first one I bought was activation locked (previous user didn't clear out his/her iCloud completely when they returned it to MC and MC didn't check apparently)
Luckily, when I went to return it, they had another open box for the same price so I rolled the dice on that one and came up a winner (ie, no activation lock)
It was a bit disconcerting that when I returned the locked one, I told the person that it was locked - seems he didn't care or didn't know what that meant because he just printed out a new MC open box price tag, slapped it on the box and it was back up for sale on their website again within hours
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Thanks, pinkoos, I will be sure to check that. Is there a way to update/reset to 11.1 that will default to a clean install?
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mrbigstuff wrote:
Thanks, pinkoos, I will be sure to check that. Is there a way to update/reset to 11.1 that will default to a clean install?
Why 11.1?