[js1138]

Still the computer for the rich of us. I won't comment on the quality. It appears to be there. But Mac continues to plummit in market share.

Meanwhile AMD has 64 bit chips and MS has a 64 bit server OS.

[mcg1969]

Still the computer for the rich of us.

$799---including monitor, modem, Ethernet, DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive---is too expensive? That amount of money would buy a pretty weak PC, too.

[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?

[ThinkPlease]

For $1600, you can get the G5, which is 64 bit, and 10.3, which has 64 bit pieces. That's not too shabby. It's not PC cheap, but it's price/performance ain't bad.

Scientists are just jumping on the Mac bandwagon. A workstation that does native Microsoft Word, computations and data reduction as a Unix, and you can integrate it in a Windows environment, as well as in a Unix environment. And for the most part, it does it out of the box. That's some powerful mojo. That's why I'm using a mac right now, anyway.

[papertyger]

Still the computer for the rich of us. I won't comment on the quality. It appears to be there. But Mac continues to plummit in market share.

So does Ferrari. What's your point?