Cute, tiny, and cheap

The Mac Mini is out -- and the base model is only $499. It's official -- you can't criticize Macs for being too expensive anymore.

UPDATE: Apparently Scoble can:

It's not as cheap as it sounds, though. No monitor. No keyboard and mouse. Compare to Walmart machines selling for $468 including monitor and everything.

A lot of PC users already have monitors and spare keyboards lying around. And I believe Steve Jobs pointed out you can run a PC and a Mac from the same monitor and keyboard using a KVM switch.

(Also note that the Walmart machine has a slow Celeron processor and an Intel Extreme(ly Slow) graphics system. While a G4 and a Radeon 9200 aren't exactly fast, they're faster than that.)