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And if you wanted a cd burner and DVD player would a dell still be cheaper... Face it the #1 talking point that windophiles had (mac's price) is as sound as the Microsoft security model..

At $499 this mac is price competitive with a dell PC, may be a bit better or may be a bit worse depending on your needs but it defiantly is competitive..

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At $499 this mac is price competitive with a dell PC, may be a bit better or may be a bit worse depending on your needs but it defiantly is competitive..

The amusing thing is, there are people complaining about this thing, as if they expected, for $500, to have a 19" LCD, 1.8GHz G5, 2 gigs of RAM, DVD Burner, 160GB harrdrive (SATA of course).

When humans were first beginning to control and then use fire, the types of people complaining about Apple/Macs would have been there complaining that it was too dangerous, that it hurt their eyes to look at it, that it made the meat taste funny, that it was too hot, etc.

My opinion, the software alone is easily worth %30 of that $500 Mac mini. I've seen, firsthand, people who aren't comfortable with computers (are either new to them or hate them/have had bad experiences with them) use some of the software for the Mac, and become comfortable and adept with it very quickly.

Some people here like to make out that Macs are for simpletons, etc., but the fact is, the software works and is generally designed well (even if Apple and various third party software vendors don't always conform to Apple's UI standards).

A well designed product that does exactly what it's supposed to do, and that wastes as little of your time as possible..nothing wrong with that at all

I'm an Apple stockholder and I approve this message ;-) (I also approve the stock doing well).