The Mac Mini is just as cheap as any budget PC you buy... I paid 600 CDN for mine... I'd have paid more for the same budget PC at the time... So why not have them go Mac Mini instead...
Perhaps, but for the price of the cheapest mac mini (using Intel core solo) I can get a PC with a pentium D (dual core) for just about the same price and that's just searching on Dell's site...

Anyway, I think sometime down the road... maybe a couple years... apple will go the 'microsoft route' and just start licensing the Mac OS, seeing as how it can now run on PC's and that's all a mac really is now...

As for the personal attacks.. nihil wanted to attack my age... I'll turn it into a full blown attack... I guess I'm kinda like the US... kill a few thousand people and I'll obliterate your nation (not really an insult... just refering to the fact that someone had said before that I was more American than I thought)
IMHO most canadians are ...