I am speaking your language, honestly. I've built (and used) more PCs than I care to remember and I like them. But then again, like yourself, I enjoy putting things together and having the satisfaction of knowing I can upgrade my machine at any point in the future (assuming they don't change ports like when they did AGP to PCIEX which leaves you buggered).
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I wasn't buggered with the AGP to PCEI switch lol, I kept my AGP based system till I couldn't max games out at 60FPS anymore, then went to PCIE
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I like being able to keep my hardware for a long time.
What do I do with old hardware? put it in the basement and add it to my network ( currently at 19TBs of storage )
But most shoppers don't want that. They barely know how to switch a computer on. They want something that works out of the box without much thinking involved (in my experience anyway).
Yeah, to a point. And there are lots of people out there like that, but I think there are also lots of people who would never have opened up their machines, out of fear, 5 years ago. I think lots of those people wouldn't be to scared to pop off the side panel and shove a PCI card in lol.
Who cares about graphics cards when their kids already have a wii, playstation, xbox and portable devices? Who cares about SSD when the keyboard is soooo pretty?
Oh I do, and I know lots of people who still love PC games, Unless I knew the person buying the machine would ONLY do basic stuff like FB and Amazon and email, I would say spend the 50 bucks on the graphics card.
My keyboard is made by Rain PC, and its super pretty
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When I build for myself I spend most on the GPU, CPU and Mobo.
Yep. I always build myself, except for Apple machines. The only non built by me computer I've owned in about 7 years is this one.
http://www.gamepc.com/shop/systemfamily.asp?family=ds3
I worked on a huge project, didn't get a day off for 81 days, so I bought it as my gift to myself. Frist PC I had in years and years that wasn't in pieces when I bought it, Ironically, I have it hooked up to a 30 inch Apple Cinema display
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I had to upgrade to Crossfired 7980s and 96gb of ram of course ;0
When I build for others I do what Apple do and look for the prettiest form factor and work backwards from there - hence my point - when I do that I cannot beat the Mac Mini in 'bang for buck'. Seriously - go ahead and try it including all of the features of the Mac Mini (plus optical drive to load the OS).
When I build for people I know, not only do I not charge money, but I listen to what they want. If they want cheap cheap cheap, I buy a 50 dollar mobo, 30 dollar case/psu, and equally crappy everything, I've built boxes for people for under 400 dollars ( I have a Windows Volume license...shhhh ), that have been going for almost 10 years ( yep, some of the first ones I built ), still chugging along.
I can deff build, or BUY a PC from an OEM that is better than a Mac Mini. Will it be larger? yes. Much larger, but god damnit I dont put **** under my TV's, besides my Blu Ray Players and 360s
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To be honest, I HATE gateway.
The cloest thing you'll get in the PC world.
http://us.gateway.com/gw/en/US/content/sx-series/sx-series
Ive seen these in the wild, awesome little machines The first thing Ive seen from gateway in like....10 years that I'd actually buy.
see gateway link
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iMac is amazing, but Mac Mini competes really well with the cheap-mid range tower market. There's no denying that.
I LOVE my iMac now with 10.8, there is some stuff I hate about 10.8, but meh, I've already disabled most of what I hate.
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The Mac Mini for me, can't compete with those towers. Because those towers will be viable machines 7-10 years from now, and the Mac Mini won't. Because Apple says so.
is just freckin awesome at making disposable computers and devices, and .. well, that's about it. No need to be ashamed and deny it.