[Halfmanhalfamazing]

...............”As prices fall and $200 PCs become a reality, neither Microsoft nor Mac will be able to provide an OS cheap enough to offer value for money.”

False. Think about what you get when you buy an iPod............

LOL, you can’t be serious. Web browsing on a 2 inch screen? That might be ok for occassional use, but try doing office productivity or your homework on that thing.

I won’t argue with you that it’ll have use well beyond it’s music capability, but it will need some kind of port for video output before it could be considered a candidate in the same field.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"LOL, you can’t be serious. Web browsing on a 2 inch screen?"

You missed my point. The contention in the posts above is that Apple can't produce a computing device with operating system etc to compete with the Wal-Mart Linux PCs. I'm saying they could if they wanted to: you can already buy a device from them for that kind of price that has a hard-disk, OS, touchpad, memory, screen and connectivity. They could do it in a larger form-factor if they felt it was worth their while. The hardware and OS cost is the easy part.