[dennisw]

All my home PC's (six of them across the family) are home-built using components I researched and selected. The newest PC being an 8 core AMD FX-8350 with 32gb of ram. Two are my kids gaming machines (both AMD 8320's) with high-end graphic cards and SSD's.

The remaining three machines are 2 Intel Core 2 Quads running at 2.4ghz (both at least 7 years old< used to run some things around the house and my amateur radio station, and the last is an Intel i5 that's at least 5 years old.

I'm in the same boat. No equipment failures. My needs are more modest so last fall assembled 2 Windows 7 computers. Win 8 does not bother me but I had the 2 Win7 licenses.

Haswell Pentium/8gb/Gigabyte mobo
Haswell i3/16gb/Asus mobo
I had the 2 power supplies which are years old w no problems.

Spent less than 500 dollars all together for 2 computers!
Pathetic Apple users have to spend minimum $1100 to buy  a crappy 13" laptop

Mac mini forces the beggars to grovel for 4gb memory. You have lay out more coin to go 8gb. Prolly can't handle 16

 

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[Swordmaker]

Mac mini forces the beggars to grovel for 4gb memory. You have lay out more coin to go 8gb. Prolly can't handle 16

It can. Two 8GB sticks. Easy. Why post your ignorant FUD? On a Mac, 4GB is sufficient for most activities,