So everybody and their dog has understandably been in frenzy about the Mac Mini. Not only is everybody eager to get one themselves, but the Mac Mini also seems to be the best choice for the parts of the family with less clue and interest in computers: $499 isn't much for something that stylish and OS X currently turns out to be a good replacement for Windows security-wise.
But how long will it take until OS X suffers from similar problems than Windows and a bunch of its major applications (Internet Explorer, Outlook Express) are currently going through? Sure, OS X is built on a BSD kernel, but even that does not prevent critical bugs from existing. Even if the kernel and the rest of OS X was developed and is maintained by über-wizards, there will be bugs. (That's not only a theory of mine. Google for it.) Who can tell that e.g. Rendezvous doesn't contain a bug that allows me to reboot my father's Mac from my mobile phone? And, who prevents my mom from launching that particular file that was attached to this particular mail?
The fact that there currently are no major exploits does not mean that OS X is secure by definition. I think that people should keep that in mind.
And now let me figure out how many lines of code are required to fund my Mini ...