The new Mac Mini appeals to me for several reasons:

- radically faster CPU (although it's a good question whether it can play 1080i/60 or 1080p/24 video -- that would be a deal-breaker for me if it couldn't)

- gigabit Ethernet (to talk to my RAID box, replacing my current Apple G4 Tower)

- built-in WiFi (if I wanted to drop one into my home theater)

The pricing is definitely twisted. Has anybody priced out what it would take to do your own memory upgrade vs. Apple's memory prices? Certainly, the HD upgrade prices are silly.

Meanwhile, it's entertaining to read about Fink on Intel Mac's. Sounds like you have to build it yourself, but that it appears to work.