I don't know if Dell wins, but they are certainly in the game. I think the biggest difference is that these Dells are designed to be seen where the minis are de

I don't know if Dell wins, but they are certainly in the game. I think the biggest difference is that these Dells are designed to be seen where the minis are designed to be invisible. The Dells are quite a bit larger than a mini, about twice the volume. The Dell has better specs, but the current mini is late in its product cycle, so that is to be expected. Bluray is a real win if you are the sort of person that uses physical media and plans to use Bluray. Windows is a win if you are the sort of person that uses Windows. The hard drive size is a big win if you need disk space. HDMI is nice, but that is more about supporting the DRM of the blue-ray drive since the mini has the non-crippling DVI port (as does the Dell). I wonder about the fan noise. On the back port picture you can see a lot of heat sink behind the fan.