[John Lenin]

Maybe if Apple wasn't into gouging its customers they would sell more PC's. What do you think ? It is very shortsighted of Apple to price themselves out of the market, I'm sure Bill Gates laughs at Apple everytime he looks at his net worth.

[Swordmaker]

Maybe if Apple wasn't into gouging its customers they would sell more PC's. What do you think ? It is very shortsighted of Apple to price themselves out of the market, I'm sure Bill Gates laughs at Apple everytime he looks at his net worth.

Last time I looked the street price of an Apple eMac (800Mhz, G-4, 60G, 17" flat screen monitor, 56k modem, 10/100 NIC) was approximately $794. I have seen them for as low as $699. The eMac comes with a nice software package which includes Appleworks, iTunes, iPics, iMovie, Mail, Safari, and several 3D games.

The g3 iBookwith similar software is under $1000.

The new G5 can be had for under $2000 and most columnists are comparing the G5s to $6-8000 workstations with one even complaining that Apple is mis-defining the $3000 Dual G5 as a desktop computer and not a "workstation."

People are complaining that the OS upgrade with major revisions and a host of programs are $129 (street price $99) but don't seem to complain that MicroSoft asks $179 for XP.