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Article:		Building the Perfect Budget PC, Part 1
Subject:		Just get a Mac Mini!
Date:		2005-02-25 07:24:39
From:		farnz
Response to: Just get a Mac Mini!
I thought the Mac Mini didn't come with a monitor, keyboard or mouse? Using the article's prices, that's $138 extra, pushing the total to $637 (or $79 more than the enhanced specification Intel). Bear in mind that the ES Intel has a DVD writer and an 80GB drive; the Mac Mini has a CD-RW/DVD combo, and a 40GB drive.

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• Just get a Mac Mini!
  2005-02-25 07:36:35  Robert Bruce Thompson | [View]
  
  
  Not to mention that the standard Mac Mini configuration doesn't have enough memory to run OS/X at all well, so you can add in a memory upgrade to the Mac cost. And not only is the Mac Mini hard drive half the size, it's a 4,200 RPM notebook drive that is *much* slower than the 7,200 RPM Barracuda.
  
  By the time you get the Mac Mini reasonably well configured, it's an $800 system, at least. And you're still stuck with a slow, obsolete G4 processor and a slow hard drive.