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drhamad · 01-12-2005, 12:56 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Bugbyte

As far as price and performance, my Epia-M10000 is a pretty slow PC box. I paid $167 for it plus $75 for 512mb of memory, $55 for the power supply, $100 for a 2.5" 60 gig drive, $200 for the Windows XP Pro and $85 for a DVD drive that doesn't work and play very well with the system. That's $682 so I don't see any substantial price premium.

Again, very exciting for us Mac fans. Probably a stifling yawn for the PC folks.

You didn't account for a case in there either

But yeah. I'm not saying I'm gonna go with a Mac mini, but I do think it's pretty damn great.

01-12-2005, 12:56 AM	#52
drhamad Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13	Quote: Originally Posted by Bugbyte As far as price and performance, my Epia-M10000 is a pretty slow PC box. I paid $167 for it plus $75 for 512mb of memory, $55 for the power supply, $100 for a 2.5" 60 gig drive, $200 for the Windows XP Pro and $85 for a DVD drive that doesn't work and play very well with the system. That's $682 so I don't see any substantial price premium. Again, very exciting for us Mac fans. Probably a stifling yawn for the PC folks. You didn't account for a case in there either But yeah. I'm not saying I'm gonna go with a Mac mini, but I do think it's pretty damn great.