[afz400]

You get what you pay for - Apples are engineered, high quality products, not the slapped together crap you get from HP, etc. Apple is poised to take over in the next five years IMHO because Microsoft has p*ssed off so many previously loyal customers with their obsession for building software that surrepticiously snoops around for what you're doing on your PC. Who needs that sh*t?

[Michael Barnes]

HP throws together "crap"? Interesting..Didn't know Apple had any servers to go head to head with HP.

Oh, you meant desktop....Well, Apple might want to consider porting to x86 or IA 64. I can't think of too many Fortune 500's that would ditch 100K+ in Intel based desktop's for PowerPC's. Nice chip (I love RISC), no where near able to compete (dollar for dollar) against the cheaper Intel's and AMD's.

[papertyger]

Apple is poised to take over in the next five years IMHO because Microsoft has p*ssed off so many previously loyal customers...

I wouldn't go hocking the jewels to invest in Apple just yet if I were you.

I have learned two profound truths about life:
Never underestimate the ability of people to rationalize bad decisions.
And never underestimate Steve Jobs ability to innovate so far ahead of the curve the buying public has no idea what the hell said innovation is good for.