Mac Mini--why I think it won't take off

Thinking about it, I don't think (at the current pricing) the Mac Mini will be that successful, in Australia at least... If it were at the AU$650 price as was rumoured, yes, it'd grab the market of home users upgrading from a sub-1GHz Wintel machine who don't have any real tie to the platform (not avid gamers, unable to keep their machines virus-free, etc.); it's what you'd expect to pay for an upgrade to a current Windows machine anyway. But with the actual retail price of AU$850... No, "I could by a P4 w/ Monitor and everything for that."

Well, I'm biased because I've been building my own PCs for years.  A sub-1.5-GHz machine with only 256MB of memory, a 40GB or 80GB hard drive, and 32MB low-end Radeon video for $500 US?  Is this supposed to impress me?  Hey Apple, U FAIL IT

The tiny case is very cute, and perhaps the Apple fanatics will find them charming, but it's become possible to build a surprisingly impressive PC for that kind of money.