You like to think that Apple and Dell have as much in common as the U.S. and Iran, but the PC business is a lot different. These days, many of the products you buy, from these and other PC makers, have lots of parts in common. Many are even built in the same factories in [...]

I used to tell people they had to budget for a memory upgrade whenever they bought a new Mac. But that requirement is no longer as critical, except for the professional models, where the more RAM the better. In upgrading the Mac mini, the major change is an increase to 512MB of RAM, standard. The [...]