The whole point behind the Mini was to introduce users who may have been on desktop computers using other OSs (ahem) and already had a screen, keyboard, mouse, camera, etc an opportunity to try Macs. The low price point at the time was absolutely essential for this. If it also encouraged existing Mac users to upgrade their older devices, well that would be a boon, too.
But, as they did with the MacBook Air (once the inexpensive de facto Mac for students, road warriors and the cafe crowd), they've priced it out of it's original market.
At my Apple Store, the least expensive Macs they have available (be it stocking issues or company decision to kill off models) is a $CDN1000 Neo or a $CDN1100 Mini. That's absurd.
