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Jeff, with all respect ... but Apple is not a MS enemy.

Mac mini cannot compete with a $500 PC. Why? Because Mac mini is x-times slower, plus Mac mini is not user-upgradeable.

Second ? performance of OS X sucks compared to Windows 2000.

Third ? almost ALL new Steve Jobs? products are defected by the design (G3, G4, G5, laptops, iPods, etc.). Later Apple resolves their issues for the expense of Mac users (guinea pigs).

Thus, those who will buy Mac mini are most likely beta-tester who bought this luxury for $500 or more. Even Apple?s displays are defected too:

The defect in the 17-inch LCD Studio Displays
http://homepage.mac.com/wysz/Studio_Display/index.html


Mac is not even good for Internet surfing:
?Loading complex pages under both Netscape and IE, the Apple PowerBook took more than twice as long and the iBook took more than three times as long as the fastest PC notebook.?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,36120,00.asp


The Gadget Show: PC vs MAC Jul 26 2004 channel 5, 7:30pm, UK
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5648&page=1
?... they were doing a PC Vs MAC competition, where they took the best MAC out (the G5, with its dual processors and 64 bit arciteture) and a top end PC (they didnt say the spec :S ).

The first test was to see how long it would take to set up the PC/MAC outta the box and be on a certain website. The MAC was up and running in around 7 minutes, while the PC took 28 minutes. MAC 1-0 PC

The second test was doing a special effect on Adobe Photoshop, to see which could do it faster. The PC done its an around half the time of the MAC! Considering that was MAC teritory i thought that woulda won. So MAC 1-1 PC

Then it was UT2004, i dont know what settings they had it on, but the mac averages at about 100 FPS while the PC rarely drop below 200 FPS. PC takes the lead (yaah) MAC 1-2 PC

Then the last test was just ridiculas. They would see how much damage/cost would happen to the PC/MAC if they dropped them off a 25 foot balcony! Now were talking about nearly ?3000 worth of computers. The PC was dropped off, and all it needed was a new mother board =/ to get it started , and was fixable for ?65. The MAC looked like it suffered the same fate, but getting the motherboard was another story. No PC shop was aloud to sell them one because of there deals with Apple (god knows what deal that was), so he had to ring apple, tell them he threw it off a 25 foot balcony and then got told a new motherboard would be ?400! So PC takes the victory with ease with the score finishing MAC 1-3 PC.?

Mac Sucks
http://www.mac-sucks.com/

Macs are not as trouble free as one is led to believe. Running a studio environment with 20 or more Macs does cost money to keep everything working smoothly. It may be only an hour here or there, but this can easily balloon your IT support budget to over $10K a year.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/28/1619245&tid=107&tid=137&tid=185&tid=6

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