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PC Competition for the Mac mini?
Omega1045 asks: "When Apple announced their Mac mini last week for US$499, it caught my eye. Wanting to buy/build a small PC for my already cramped breakfast bar, I started pricing out similar PC hardware. The results startled me. It was very difficult to price a PC as small (6.5" x 6.5" x 2") as the Mac mini with comparable equipment cheaper than the Mac mini. Indeed, most of the configurations I found were more than the humble $499 of the Mac, often much more. To match price I often had to configure with a much bigger shuttle-style case. What computers are currently on the market to compete with this? When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?" How long do you think it will take PC manufacturers to answer Apple's latest entry into the market?
How lond do you think it will take PC manufacturers to answer Apple's latest entry into the market?
;-)
:-) why not? It's unix.
I don't think anyone really knows how lond
omega1045: just buy the mini
/* oops I accidentally made a comment, sorry */
Don't answer him! It's a provocation by some apple zealot!
;)
Robert
PS
Bastard Operator From 193.219.28.162
My wife asked me for one thing, how can I give her something else entirely and act all pompous like I went out of my way for her? I like sleeping on the couch.
I really don't think its hygeinic to have windows in the kitchen, all those viruses and worms
;-)
Really, it is stylish (nice color, will look good on coffee table), it runs UNIX, can be gotten for cheap now, even included an IndyCam -- and form-factor is not too far from mini-mac.
Only partially kidding!
Paul B.
Why would the big guys bother anyway? Its practically win-win if it takes off. Their tech-support doesn't have to deal with as many computer illiterate people, and the big-company execs don't have to deal with as many tech-support people anymore (wink wink).
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
Maybe he's a big fan of spyware and would miss out on all of the "fun" if he got a Mac.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
This isn't intended as a personal slur (I agree with what you wrote), but you your new twist on the whole loose/lose issue really made me splutter... :-)
Hell, when he leaves the monstrosity on the bar, she'll be pissed!
I have a website. It's about Macs.
The original Myst is always an option. Frogger would work awesome on it!
>> My time right now is worth $9 an hour.
I guess that would explain the length of your post there, Tolstoy.
Get her the damn Mac min! Then when you ask for sex or a blow-job you'll be more likely to get one.
"She wanted a Mac mini and I told her I could build her a better PC myself. Now when I ask for sex, she hands me the baby oil and tells me to do it myself. My name is Wayne Kerr and I wish I was a Switcher."
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
I am an MS shill who is shitting in his pants about the prospect of a highly afordable mac i dont really have a wife because i have an IQ of 40 im ugly as hell and i weigh 500lbs. In an attempt to please my evil satanic master (Monkey boy) i have concocted an imaginary story where my wife wants a mini mac ( see the part about not having a wife ) and how i am on this grand technical quest to find a pc for this imaginary wife so that i can get that for her instead. in this imaginary world my imaginary wife would have to have an IQ of 30 and therefore truely want a pc. My grand attempt at FUD for my master would work best on /.
Dear MS Troll
Please go back to your brige under the freeway and shoot yourselfe with a bazooka. cut off you balls so there is no chance that you could ever even accidentally procreate. idiots like you are wasting valuable air that other things could actually use ( gestating maggots come to mind ). i have a real wife and i bought her an ibook she loves it and uses it all the time. she is compleatly confident with it and she has never had a virus spyware or needed me to fix it. originally she wanted a PC laptop but i lent her my PB for a week and she decided she wanted a MAC to. i intend to either buy or convince all the members of my family to buy one of these so that i dont have to put up with repair calls. also i showed my wife that in order to do all of the things that you can do on a mac you would have to pay about 400$ more you would have to essentially find a free pc to campare the two. the new mac mini comes with
no spyware
no viri
ilife
iwork
UNIX
omnigraffle ect
and 16 other professional grade applications and utilities.
peace of mind
there is no pc that can even come close to maching this deal.
if you actually had a wife you would respect and honer her and get a mac. but please built this imaginary PC for your imaginary wife. and use it to get pr0n off the internet because that is the closest you will ever get to intimacy with a real woman.
Cheap, 'equivalent' PC that's only 1.5 times larger than Mac mini..........$770
installing all the software you need to make it 'equivalent' to the Mac......bloody ages
No nookie for a month when your wife finds out what you got her..........priceless
Paul Thurrott says that the Mini's competition is eMachines and Compaq and that both of them will squash Apple like a bug. Had a good laugh at that this morning.