Its gotta be killing these schills that the mac mini is price competative with dell...
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The problem being that relatively few people are capable of building a quality dragster. The rest buy pre-built on the market.
The only exceptions would be high end custom music or graphics software that require an additional wrap-around API to function.
Huh?
PC's crash because people are too stupid to defrag
You do know that disk fragmentation rarely has anything to do with a computer crash, don't you?
egomaniacal, clunky, proprietary sludge
Egomaniacal, yes. It often takes ego to achieve excellence. Clunky? Sorry, they're pretty fast and designed better than any PC on the market. Proprietary? Depends on what you're talking about. Can I upgrade my RAM, hard drive, graphics, etc., without having to buy from Apple? Can I plug in any USB or Firewire device? Definitely.
but is that worth 4 times the cost because
You haven't priced Macs lately, have you?