Appleworks and iWork shipping on new Macs?

Just in case you noticed, I was on holiday last week. But you didn't notice, I'm too new here. :)

Just before I went on holiday, I made the plunge and ordered a new Mac mini. I have a Linux server at home (which serves as my media playback device), but it's been annoying me for awhile: the fan is loud, I'm sick of recompiling the kernel, it occasionally will stop recognising my DVD drive so I have to reboot*. I'd been following the reports that the the Mm got an unannounced update to a faster processor, faster hard drive, and better video card. I had been hoping that Apple would actually announce the update, but they didn't. I finally decided to roll the dice and ordered the machine.

It arrived while I was gone. Everything on the box says that it's the old one (1.42-GHz processor, etc), but it is the faster beast. This isn't terribly surprising, given that the reports have been coming out for more than a month that people are receiving these.

But I am surprised about the software that's pre-installed on the Mm. I knew that it came with iLife. But it also came with both iWork and Appleworks. My new Mm came with two separate Apple-made word-processing applications. How very odd. I wonder what this means for the future of Appleworks. Are other new Macs shipping with both of these packages?

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* I get really cranky about rebooting my Linux machine. The Linux community tells me that Linux is rock-solid, that they never have to reboot. I've had to reboot that bloody server more often than anything else I've ever owned, regardless of OS.