War of the workspaces

Now that Intel has won the battle for a while (with AMD) I've started to take a closer look into the war of the workspaces.

A good summary of the whole Bootcamp / Parallels / Crossover storm over at Macworld
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/30/crossover/index.php

Now that macs and windows both run on intels, and the fact that Cross over doesn't require a copy of XP like Bootcamp and Parallels does, then the $60US price tag is quite appealing. If you look at the prices of hardware then you can easily see that affordability wise you won't beat a Mac Mini with a Core Duo at the moment..its easily $60US cheaper than an equivalently specs PC....so will the Mini and the MacBook do magic sales like the ipod - probably yes! Very cunning Mr Jobs.

In terms of a mini pc at home, i'm more keen to go with a custom Aopen Mini running Vista Pro(until a decent GUI comes out for Linux). Maybe a core 2 duo 2.6, say 1Gb ram with 2GB booster and a Life Cam - microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=002