[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"the PC is becoming expendable,check out Microcenter prices,emachines with Win 7 for $250"

Interesting punctuation there.

There is no comparison between the $250 low-end eMachines and any Mac. Apple chooses not to play in the commodity basement, and chooses not to subsidize its prices with gigabytes of performance-sapping preloaded crapware. Profitability, for some silly reason, is important to them. It funds R&D, for example, and lets them expand into new markets and new ways of doing business. Look at competitors like HP-- round after round after round of layoffs, leaving them with a sickly product line composed of me-too products, and no company left.

By the way, the Mac Mini at around $600 is a really nice desktop machine, not at all stripper in functionality, performance or reliability, and with no crapware. The new iMacs are fantastic, too, and very well priced considering their benchmarks. But down at the bloody bottom of the marketplace, down in layoff land, Apple is wisely leaving it to others to decimate themselves.

[thecodont]

In a subway station in a nearby city, the walls are dominated with ads (”I’m a PC”) for the new Windows 7 OS.

“I asked for less crashes. I got less crashes.”

Fewer, not less. Fewer. Don’t these Microsoft people do a grammar check on their ads?