Dell PCs cheaper than Mac Minis?

[Maccess]

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/01/miniapplesandoranges/index.php

Dell PCs are cheaper... NOT! Read this for a point by point comparison of the Mac Mini and a Dell box.


But they also make small PCs, don't they? and PCs are cheaper, aren't they?

Well, you can have a Mac Mini sized PC, but it's definitely not cheaper... read this for prices of a mini sized PC

http://www.littlepc.com/products_p3littlepc_pricelist.htm

Want cheap? Yes, there are cheaper PCs
Want small? Yes, there are Mini sized PCs
Want fast? There are PCs faster than a Mac mini.

Problem is there isn't a cheap, small, fast PC like a Mac Mini.

Fast PCs are expensive and humongous.

Small PCs are at least twice the price of a Mac Mini.

Cheap PCs are real dogs with such horrible design compromises such as shared MB/Video RAM, Intel Video, etc, etc.

[Macmon]

This is the follow up of apples and dell

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[Maccess]

I particularly like the point he mentioned towards the end of the article about windows PCs spending an inordinate amount of time running anti virus and anti spyware software. I oversee many windows PCs and agree with this.

For every 8 hours a Windows PC is in use, you'll need one hour to run all these utilities. Haha....