[Swordmaker]

If you have plans for peripherals, plan on paying 3x as much for the Apple-compatible items than PC. Also, if you are going to need ANY software on top of what the Apple comes with, you had better be rich.

Please provide an example of a current Apple Macintosh peripheral that is 3 times the price of a PC peripheral. I don't think you can.

Software pricing is comparable.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks again for the Mac ping list, BTW. I let my MacAddict subscription lapse (I never read the mag, just mined the disk, and I've got broadband now; what I really need is an e-version of the mag available to me) but the new issue has a freebie (Mac OS X) office suite, a knockoff of Photoshop, etc.