| Dell Dimension 4700 | Mac mini | |
| Processor | 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 [hyperthreaded] [add $20 for 3.0 GHz] |
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 |
| Cache | 1 MB L2 on-chip | 512 KB on-chip |
| System bus speed | 800 MHz | 167 MHz |
| Memory | 256 MB | 256 MB |
| Type of memory | 400 MHz DDR SDRAM | 333 MHz DDR SRAM |
| Video card | Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 [add $60 for PCI Express X300 SE with 128 MB VRAM] |
ATI Radeon 9200 |
| Video memory | Shared | 32 MB |
| Video bus | PCI Express x16 | AGP 4x |
| Display | 19" LCD flat panel [analog] Add $270 for a Dell widescreen 20" LCD panel |
None Add $799 for a Apple widescreen 20" LCD panel Add $225 for a generic 19" LCD panel [e.g. GEM] |
| Resolution | 1280 X 1024 | - |
| Hard drive | 40 GB [add $20 for 80 GB] | 40 GB |
| Hard drive bus | Ultra ATA/100 | Ultra ATA |
| DVD read | 16x | 8x |
| DVD-R | - | - |
| CD read | 48x | 24x |
| CD-R | 48x | 24x |
| CD-RW | 32x | 16x |
| FireWire | - [Add $40 for 2 FireWire 800] |
1 FireWire 400 |
| USB | 8 2.0 | 2 2.0 |
| Modem | - [add $20 for 56K] |
56K |
| Ethernet | 100BaseT | 100BaseT |
| Mouse and keyboard | USB | Add $58 for Apple wired set Add $28 for Microsoft wireless set |
| Expansion slots | 2 PCI 1 PCIe x1 1 PCIe x16 |
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| Size | Frickin' huge | Rilly small |
| Software | Windows XP Home with SP2, antivirus | Mac OS X, AppleWorks, iLife '05, Quicken |
| Warranty | 90 days | 1 year parts and labor 90 days phone support |
| Price [inc. tax and shipping to Redmond, Washington] | $617 | $543 |
In short, it's starting to seem kind of overpriced, even at $499, considering that you can get a far faster PC with a 19" LCD display, keyboard, and mouse, all for about $75 more. Is anyone buying these things? When do Apple report their quarterly profits?
