[Eric in the Ozarks]

While in Seattle over Christmas, we visited an Apple retail store. # 1 son (Mac fan) pointed to a small white tabletop box little bigger than a box of Kleenex, that he said had more power than my Dell tower. What the heck ?

[dangerdoc]

Was the box full of Plutonium?

[Question_Assumptions]

It basically uses laptop components to keep it small and doesn't have all the air space in the Dell tower for expansion slots (using USB and Firewire connectors for expansion, instead). They are pretty powerful little machines, though not as flexible as your Dell if you want to swap out components.

[Doohickey]

Hand him a 512MB video card and have him let you know when he's got it installed in the Mini.