I payed $890 this past summer and built a new rig. I have a full tower steel chassis similar to a mac pro. An Asus MOBO upgradeable to 8GB RAM, I can have 8 Sata drives. I have a 250mm fan in front, 360mm fan on the side, and a 120mm exhaust fan, it's like a vortex inside my PC. And the monitors? 20" monitor with a 16ms refresh rate, 1680x1050 res, and a contrast ratio of 400:1 for a price tag of $599!? I just got a Samsung T220 last month when the circuit city around here was going under for $229, almost a 1/3 of the price. I've got 2" more, same res, 2ms refresh rate, and contrast ratio of 20000:1. I think the brightness levels are even better. Apple charges and arm and a leg for their products, there is no denying, and they do not offer enough to make it justified.

Jrugh... Have you even looked at the recent pricings. The cheapest iMac you can get is about $1200, you can get a similar spec'd PC $600 or less if you shop around. Or let's bring up the Air, Apples overpriced mutant child. Let's see, you can pay $1799 (base price) and get barely anything. Mac prides them selves on software (as you say it is superior), a lot of which they sell on disc, however if you like to run any of this on you MacBook Air you'll need to buy a separate external optical drive that will selfishly take up the single USB port. I'm not saying Mac's suck, but you're such a fanboy it's disgusting. Have you looked at the prices they sell their monitors for? Look it up and see if you can find a justification for it.

There is no doubt that OSX is a good OS, especially with Leopard. I mean if it wasn't they wouldn't be able to sell their machines for ridiculously inflated prices. But please, this is a feature on Windows 7, which I'm pretty excited for, so lets cut the "Mac's r teh pwnz all!" garbage. Just because you spent two to three times more on a similar spec'd system doesn't mean you need to tell everyone about it.