{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Katy Brown (cavatina)'s status on Sunday, 23-Sep-12 16:50:38 UTC","author_name":"Katy Brown (cavatina)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/cavatina","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1941089","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/5743\" class=\"url\" title=\"Micheal McPony\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">thatonestocking<\/span><\/a><\/span> A lot of people also don't believe you could build a &quot;Hack Mini&quot;  HTPC for less than the cost of the Mac Mini itself. That'd be why the one in my grandad's house only cost him \u00a3300. The cost of a PC only rises as the requirements of the system rise. If you need a high end system, you pay a high end price. If you need a high end system, but not so much a graphics system, you save money from that. People just seem to think all PC's are expensive, and that they somehow get a bargain when they get a Celeron laptop for \u00a3500 &gt;.&gt;"}