The only crap is in this flaming bag you left on our doorstep, Jeff Somogyi. Let's get right to its "thesis" about .

The one, probably-necessary update they didn't give this 'lil computer? A reason to exist.

Sheer awesomeness isn't enough anymore?

With such a fast CPU, one might assume that the mini is mighty enough to tackle all but the most intensive tasks. And you're probably right--for now. The problem is, software will begin to bloat it.

First of all, your use of the transitive here doesn't make any sense. The software bloats, not the hardware. Second, when do you expect this bloat overload to happen? Three years is kind of a standard lifecycle for a computer. Do you really think the Mac mini isn't going to be useful for that long? The Macalope has that's only just now been outpaced by Lion. Still runs Snow Leopard like a champ.