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Originally Posted by chucker
Very few people want an entry-level desktop these days, though.
The Mac mini is kind of still interesting for some niche use cases like sticking it somewhere in the living room as an ersatz Apple TV, or putting it in a server farm as a build machine. But the 2005-era proposition of "we'll price it $499 so it'll get people interested in the Mac platform" doesn't make sense today.
A $799 MacBook Air with a Pentium/Celeron (a.k.a. low-budget Intel Core) might. A headless desktop, though? Nah.
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I still know plenty of people that want an entry level computer, small business network setups for example. An iMac is overkill for that application, when a Mac Mini and basic $100 screen will do just fine.