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CaliforniaMini
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 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:13 am Post subject: Re: Why super drive still make noise at startup? |
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| fiat wrote: | | I bought mine from Amazon in April. Different sellers (and discount) could be the reason getting products with different (lower grade) parts. Did you buy yours from apple directly? |
Not necessarily. What retailers they are sold through should have no effect on who supplies their components. Most likely they have multiple suppliers for common parts, which should be made to similar standards. Or their was a change in suppliers somewhere along the line. Or different manufacturers use different suppliers, however I believe all Minis are made by Quanta in one location.
For the record, my refurbished '09 2.0 Mini has a Pioneer drive.
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CaliforniaMini
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And this update definitely did speed things up. Safari opened before the icon completed one bounce in the dock. Safari is starting to work like it should have done a long time ago.
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fiat
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Why super drive still make noise at startup? |
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| CaliforniaMini wrote: | | fiat wrote: | | I bought mine from Amazon in April. Different sellers (and discount) could be the reason getting products with different (lower grade) parts. |
Not necessarily. What retailers they are sold through should have no effect on who supplies their components. Most likely they have multiple suppliers for common parts, which should be made to similar standards. Or their was a change in suppliers somewhere along the line. Or different manufacturers use different suppliers, however I believe all Minis are made by Quanta in one location.
For the record, my refurbished '09 2.0 Mini has a Pioneer drive. |
The key here is that apple has total control on distributing products with different parts to resellers. I would imagine apple could know that OPTIARC superdrive has a small bug and Pioneer's doesn't, and so they would keep mini with Pioneer's at apple store and send mini with Optiarc and/or Pioneer to resellers (allow resellers to sell in discount). How is that not possible? IMO |
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LE Studios
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: Re: Why super drive still make noise at stsrtup? |
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| fiat wrote: | | LE Studios wrote: | We got the same Mac mini but I looked at my Info I got a Pioneer SuperDrive! How is that possible?  |
I bought mine from Amazon in April. Different sellers (and discount) could be the reason getting products with different (lower grade) parts. Did you buy yours from apple directly? |
Yes I bought my from a local Apple Store! Wow! 
I didn't think that this was possible I thought it was all the same parts. I really thought the EFI Upgrade was for the 2007 Mac mini.
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