Hrm, (Score 1)

And I had thought that apple simply copied the multitudenous small form factor pcs already out there. (www.mini-itx.com)

I guess the question is simply this, do you want to be trendy or do you want a more powerfull, more capable machine at a lower price point?

Besides, it's not really accurate to compare apple to intel (more accurate to compare motorola to intel) you should be comparing apple to Dull/gateway/emachines etc...

RacerX