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pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #53082422 added 09-09-2012 8:49 AM by stevef1 in Archived Deals
I mentioned running Apple's Hardware Test a coupe of months ago, which will check out the major components: Also, You can run Apple's Hardware Test by pressing down the "D" button after the...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52127804 added 08-01-2012 3:13 PM by john1863 in Archived Deals
I am a total Apple/Mac novice. I got one of these to play with but when I power it on it comes up with the attached screen. Basically says: CDSTV Inititial (sic) OS Installation Followed by...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52131220 added 08-01-2012 4:37 PM by nsfw in Archived Deals
That is very weird. Its a Cisco terminal server configuration screen. You might want to google Lion or Mountain Lion disk creator and make a USB disk that you can boot to. Have to hold Option/ALT...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52135980 added 08-01-2012 6:34 PM by nsfw in Archived Deals
When there is no recovery partition, the NICs are able to contact Apple and do something equivalent to PXE booting. There is a minimal amount of intelligence that gets you started and then a small...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51803990 added 07-20-2012 6:18 AM by Yosemity in Archived Deals
I see a Core 2 Duo HP desktop MSRP 1899 (joke) for 549 (bigger joke)....I refreshed for 10 minutes and nothing else... I guess Cowboom has our number...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51806922 added 07-20-2012 8:20 AM by Fatoons in Archived Deals
All Mac Mini's are equipped with a remote recovery for LION option...Cowboom just says that because there is no physical disk. http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51807888 added 07-20-2012 8:53 AM by travfar in Archived Deals
You only made $120 off of Cowboom, man they ripped you off. :nono2:
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51873896 added 07-23-2012 11:50 AM by nsfw in Archived Deals
Will be curious when someone gets their new mini to register it as purchased after june 11'th and see if you can get mountain lion for free by using this form. (which seems to be crashed at the...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52067658 added 07-31-2012 11:10 AM by GunMan in Archived Deals
Then it's bad on 3 out of 3 machines. :confused:
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52067440 added 07-31-2012 11:04 AM by GunMan in Archived Deals
Mine didn't work flawlessly. :( It says "pick a drive for Lion OS X recovery", but shows just an empty white box with no drives in it. Maybe the drive needs to be formatted, but every explantion I...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52070342 added 07-31-2012 12:47 PM by Fatoons in Archived Deals
I actually forgot the tidbit that I actually erased the included HDD before creating the new partition...did you do this yet?
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52032442 added 07-30-2012 12:50 AM by wildacex187 in Archived Deals
thanx!. this worked for me also!
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51806562 added 07-20-2012 8:06 AM by nsfw in Archived Deals
Did you read the thread? re: cowboom dumping in mac mini's every so often and then filling the rest of the day with crap? I'm not saying its going to come back, but thats how it works and if it...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51806758 added 07-20-2012 8:13 AM by Silckdaels in Archived Deals
Might try it first, I've had no problems with 2GB. It's a mac, not a PC.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51807486 added 07-20-2012 8:39 AM by Fatoons in Archived Deals
I was endlessly refreshing looking for the 2.5ghz one, did not see one at all. Did any one find one today?
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51807606 added 07-20-2012 8:44 AM by travfar in Archived Deals
I find very little difference between 6, 7 and 8. Anything 6 or above is fine.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51810068 added 07-20-2012 10:18 AM by nsfw in Archived Deals
I've been tweaking machines and putting together datacenter servers for 20 years and I found it pretty challenging. Not that it was difficult in a puzzle type way, but everything is very delicate....
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51805416 added 07-20-2012 7:24 AM by Jaeger in Archived Deals
Got one for the kids to replace their old but still fine mini. Thx (repped)
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51808276 added 07-20-2012 9:09 AM by Neo42 in Archived Deals
*shrug* If by some chance I got the exact one you dropped out of your cart.. thanks? I didn't buy it to resell, I bought it for my parents to replace the finicky hackintosh I built for them a while...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51808348 added 07-20-2012 9:13 AM by xtrabad in Archived Deals
It's like fishing. They usually show up in a "school" one right after another, disappear for a while, then the "school" of Minis re-appears again later. I have no secret. I just kept refreshing...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801238 added 07-20-2012 1:24 AM by OverSpun in Archived Deals
I guess it fell off the front page even the search results too. I guess its dead? It showed a 4gb ram mini and the link didnt show anything and gone. They have a bunch in their auctions too, but eh.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801254 added 07-20-2012 1:25 AM by kilroywrl in Archived Deals
cowboom website search function is fail too...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801298 added 07-20-2012 1:31 AM by hyteckit in Archived Deals
Got a grade 8 mac mini.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801396 added 07-20-2012 1:44 AM by ehs1t in Archived Deals
am I wasting my time here . keep getting this :(
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801072 added 07-20-2012 1:00 AM by nsfw in Archived Deals
cowboom doesn't have direct links for deals of the day and they rotate in new items as they wish. its painful but it keeps you coming back all day. i've found on the mini deals they end after a few...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801108 added 07-20-2012 1:04 AM by phd2010 in Archived Deals
Thanks for info
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801700 added 07-20-2012 2:28 AM by zhopa in Archived Deals
Sure it is. If you're going to use it for HTPC, 2GB is plenty.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801788 added 07-20-2012 2:41 AM by antlp89 in Archived Deals
Can this run games like Bastion, Starcraft 2, or Diablo 3?
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51801890 added 07-20-2012 3:02 AM by ranova in Archived Deals
itd run bastion fine. SC2 and D3 will be ok with settings down. Just google "Diablo 3 Intel HD 3000" I bought an 8 - will use for Plex or XBMC
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51802056 added 07-20-2012 3:32 AM by puzzleman in Archived Deals
:iagree: misleading & the OP should know better (has 700+ posts) besides, it's cowpie. Their refurbs are never real factory refurbished :lmao: wiki updated to note these are USED!
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52789552 added 08-27-2012 10:13 PM by nsfw in Archived Deals
I'm not going to start a new thread, but it looks like its back!
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51934070 added 07-25-2012 3:02 PM by nsfw in Archived Deals
anyone get their new mini and register the purchase date as after june 12 and get mountain lion?
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51983890 added 07-27-2012 11:39 AM by nsfw in Archived Deals
anyone get an original box? I got one once for an iPad and once for a Macbook, but in general its just the item and a bag of parts.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #52013228 added 07-28-2012 10:02 PM by Jaeger in Archived Deals
After hitting Cmd-R, it goes to recovery and asks me which disk to install OS X to but it doesn't show any disk that I can select. That's why I am thinking the HD might be bad.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51842198 added 07-21-2012 8:13 PM by dancemf6 in Archived Deals
Grr did i really miss this again? How often do they do this?
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51827290 added 07-20-2012 10:37 PM by nsfw in Archived Deals
anyone an apple care policy expert? when i got my mini last month in the same deal, the serial number had never been registered with apple. the system asked when i purchased my mini and wouldn't...
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51827346 added 07-20-2012 10:42 PM by Palrascal in Archived Deals
Nice second hand facebook machine for tv.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51828778 added 07-21-2012 1:55 AM by wildacex187 in Archived Deals
i got myself the 16gig thats posted on the wiki. why wait lol. might do a owc dual hd kit when i see a descent hd at a sd price ;)
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51829086 added 07-21-2012 2:45 AM by zazon in Archived Deals
I believe it's Sandy Bridge, do it's a year old, but the deal is dead.
pre-owned i5 2.3G Mac mini $400 at cowboom
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Thread created 07-20-2012 by john1863
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Post #51800878 added 07-20-2012 12:30 AM by john1863 in Archived Deals
Cowboom has Mac Mini i5 for their front page deal for $400. Everyone that I have seen is an i5 2.3GHz 2GB 500GB system. Most seem to be graded at "7 - Overall good condition" but I was able to grab...
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