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Originally Posted by irseg
Like hell it is! It would have been a good deal with those specs 3 years ago. The base model of that thing is ridiculously overpriced as it is. Upgrade to a 1.42ghz with an 80gb drive and 1gb RAM so it's somewhat in line with a modern budget PC and throw in a keyboard/mouse, and you're at $1082. WITHOUT a monitor.
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I'll field this one. A modern budget PC does not have a decent video card. A modern budget PC does not have a gig of RAM. A modern budget PC NEVER looks good, as they save money my not hiring a design crew of world renound skill. You can't play Unreal 2004 smoothly on a budget PC. A modern budget PC will probably crash pretty often. A modern budget PC's processor (let's say Intel Pentium 4 Processor with 2.80GHz, 533 FSB) can't keep up with a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4. A modern budget PC's operating system, XP Home Edition, can't keep up with OS 10.3. A modern budget PC is lucky to have CD-RW (See Dell site, the least expensive CD-RW machine is $679). The modern budget PC has a tower that's over 18" tall and that's loud when it's thinking.
Base Mac mini + keyboard/mouse + decent monitor = $700