[Swordmaker]

The low price entry point into Mac world is a Mac Mini or their 13" laptop
Both of those are about double or triple what you can buy a good solid PC laptop or PC desktop + monitor for. Now read carefully. By good and solid I mean good enough for 80% of computer buyers.
What Apple does is con that 80% into buying more computer than they need and at outrageous prices. That is Steve Jobs greatest and most successful scam.

So, I'm assuming you're attributing the triple price to the Macbook because of the order of your listings. Therefore you say you can get a " good and solid" PC Laptop for $333. Where??? What's it made of and how long do you anticipate it lasting?

You are talking cheap plastic bargain basement laptops with minimal features at that price point, Dennis. We've repeatedly told you that Apple does not compete in that market. Twelve to eighteen months from now, your buyer will be buying another laptop to replace the one he's purchasing today.

If you want an OSX Mac in that price range, buy a good two to three year old refurbished Intel MacBook for a little more and get a Laptop that STILL beats that bargain basement PC and will run the latest OSX Release Snow Leopard faster than it ran the OSX release it came with.. And will still have just as much life expectancy left in it, if not more, as that bargain bin new PC.

[dennisw]

Matter of fact Best Buy has a Compaq laptop with an AMD processor at $329 this week. On sale. Good enuff for 70-80% of computer buyers and users

160GB hard drive and 3gb memory. Much better buy than Steve Jobs tiny minuscule 13.3” size screen bull-shyte entry level laptop that he extorts $999 for. Sometimes more