Thread: Do you consider apple products to be closed hardware/software?
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Old 06-06-2013, 05:16 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by athlonkmf View Post
I've tried to find and built a PC similar to a mac mini. It made me realize 2 things:
1) there is no way to custom built a pc with similar power as a mac mini, the size of a mac mini.
2) a custom built pc with similar power as the mac mini would save me only like $200-300. (not counting the OS)

So I just bought the mac mini, and happy with it. You can say I paid 300 dollar for the looks. Fine, it looks great. But I went for compact, silent.
Yep. It's darned expensive to build a PC with Mac Mini form factor. Simply put, it's just not possible with off-the-shelf Mini-ITX parts. You can get close but it'll likely cost more than a Mac Mini and still wouldn't be as pretty or small. I know people who bought a Mac Mini to install Windows on because it's cheaper than going custom.
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