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turbulentfurball
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2009-07-24, 15:06

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Originally Posted by Luca View Post
So I can spend $500 on that when I could instead spend $500 building an entry-level quad-core system that would completely own any Mac Mini and would have a useful amount of internal storage and RAM. Add a $200 EFI-X on top of that and $700 ought to buy a machine that will run with the $2000, 3.06 GHz iMac.

See, this is why I really don't want to buy a Mac. Even I think they make pretty good laptops, but their desktops are all a rip off.
Would your mom even need a quad-core system that would 'completely own' any Mac Mini? Seems like a Mini would be ideal.
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