[taxed2death]

I've never owned an Apple. Some of my friends have them. From what I understand they do anything a PC can (that the regular joe sixpack would need). Now with the Intel powered Mac books or what ever they're called...I guess they've just taken a leap forward in performance. That $1100.00 notebook they're sellin' now looks like a good deal.

I think of Microsoft as the McDonald's of OS's. They were the first...and had a head start to expand. They sell the prepackaged lowest common denominator to the widest audience.

I play around with LINUX sometimes because I like the fact that I'm not "tethered" to Bill or anyone for that matter.

If I buy something, I should own it.

[Mannaggia l'America]

That $1100.00 notebook they're sellin' now looks like a good deal.

It's an OK deal if you want to run Apple's operating system (which only runs on Apple hardware).

But if you do price/feature comparisons with other hardware, it's not all that great. I know because my wife's laptop broke and I was considering getting an Apple to fool around with. It just didn't make sense from strictly a hardware point of view.

The $1100 Apple you refer to (actuall $1150 has a 2Ghz Core Duo with 512MB RAM and 60GB drive and 13.3" screen.

I configured a Dell laptop (which I ended up buying) with a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 80GB drive, and 14.1" screen. This cost me $923. So for $225 less I got a Core 2 Duo (over the Core Duo), additional RAM, drive space, and screen size.

The Apple laptops are more price competitive with Windows laptops than they have been in the past, and are a decent price if you know you want to run Apple's OS. They almost swayed me to give it a shot. But if you could go either way with the OS, the Windows hardware is still a better value.