"$499 sounds like a decent price at first, but consumers need to be aware that once they add on the basics like a keyboard, monitor and mouse, plus shell out for some antivirus software, the Mac mini price is scraping the ceiling of $1600"

- Yes, if you plan on spending $1100 for a monitor, that is.

"When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware--none of which are available for the Mac platform"

- I can't remember the last time I used any Anti-Virus software on my Mac.

Lots of people don't realize it's a joke at first. It's the reasons why they don't realize it's a joke that make it funny.

Or it could just be too subtle, I guess. It had me up to "50 packs of Bubble Yum."

As was my response.

I will admit the satire in the original 'review' was a bit weak.