$479 wasn't really a much better PC than the $379. The extra gig of ram cost best buy maybe $5 or $10 more as did the bigger hard drive. Rest of the price was basically labor and a crappy anti-virus software. You could buy that case + mouse for $27.99 seperately if you really needed that. The average person will not be able to tell the difference between the 1 GB of RAM and the extra HD space so I'd say the $379 is a much better deal for the average joe.