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and as long as Mac's are charging 1500 - 2k a pop for hardware, it will stay that way.

Apple sells a computer called "eMac" that starts at $795.

Although it doesn't have a flat screen like the iMac, it is an excellent desktop computer for general business use - or home use.

Although it doesn't have a flat screen like the iMac, it is an excellent desktop computer for general business use - or home use.

Although it isn't an LCD screen like the iMac, it is, however, a 17" FLAT screen.

Again $800 for what you can get for $500 or less, and be locked to proprietary hardware and odd man out. Sorry guys, you can love your macs, but you aren't going to see MAC make inroads in business... its not financially feasible.

They lost that war about 20 years ago, and nothing is going to change that. If anyting is going to make inroads into the desktop in business that isn't Windows its going to be something like Linux, cheap, no licensing fees, and uses standard hardware, its not going to be MAC. That's just the reality.. you don't have to like it, but thats the way it is.

Oh and if you really want to go CHEAP for a PC you can get a current generation system with OS for 300-400 or less if you know what you are doing. So even your eMac is still 2x the cost.

Mac has lost the desktop/business war, and is nowhere near any level of ever seriously challenging Wintel, for good or bad.

"Apple sells a computer called "eMac" that starts at $795."

Please HAL, who wants that stinker? Why push the off-off Broadway Macs when you're responding to the price-point complaint?

If I'm going to get a Mac I want this

and this

for starters.

I'll be fair and take the "cheap" G5 for $1999 and the cheapest Studio Display for $699.

Bare bones sys for $2698. Not bad, huh?