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They are overpriced. OSX is RAM hungry so you need to go with the "512" option with your powermac. Get a powermac with 160 meg hdd, 128 meg ATI 9600,only a 1.8 Ghz proc, and protection plan = $1,973.00. All the same specs as my 2 year old, 2.4 GHz Dell I got for less than that. You may say you think OSX is the best OS, fine. But please stop trying to argue that Mac's are cheaper.


Total Cost of Ownership includes maintenance and upkeep of the system, as well as expected life performance of the entire system, including all its subcomponents.

DELL is very well aware that most people purchase a system every 18 months.

DELL is also very well aware the average Mac has a 5 to 6 year life expectancy.

They are counting on the ignorance of the average user who like leasing cars needs a fix every 18 months.

Apple is counting on slowly growing their base, over time. Apple knows most Mac users own two or three systems.

Apple knows that if nearly half of all Apple-store first time Mac purchases are from Windows users they are going to grow their base.

Let's revisit this in 5 years.

Microsoft will most likely lose a solid 10-15% of their base to Linux.

Apple will grow its base by roughly 150%.

If Windows Users are 200 Million strong then they expect to lose 15% of those to Linux users.

What hasn't changed is the total number of PC owners growing the base which is already saturated.

The Mac base will continue to grow. It had 1/10th of the 200 Million reported no less than 2 years ago.

At 150% increase that would put them up to 30 million. Compared to x86/amd it doesn't seem like much but it most certainly will as that curve continues to gain momentum.

Linux isn't creating new First time Computer Users. It is creating a pool of disgruntled and seasoned Computer Users.

I use Debian Linux. I love it.

I worked at NeXT and Apple.

I love OS X.

I'll purchase both, but the ratio will be 3 Macs for every 1 AMD based Linux system.

Why? I want seasoned, quality, industry top support that covers bumper to bumper the investment I make.

I don't play video games. Most technically capable people who have addictive personalities towards computer games buy PCs to run Linux on because they are slaves to the games which predominantly are on Windows.

Microsoft knows this and that is why they invented the Xbox and their MediaCenter solution base.

People who love Linux for development most often love developing on OS X. Powerbooks run both. Linus develops on Power PC.

Do the math.

Dissing PowerMacs as too expensive without taking any real measure of what work one does is completely missing the selling point of Apple.

Apple and Steve has been about quality productive work from the small developer to the enterprise market.

NeXT was all about high-end enterprise clients. I know I supported many of them. It was about designing solutions for the many, supported from just a few.

OS X carries on this tradition.

Expect it to just be extended with all markets Apple persues.

Linux needs to take notes. KDE group more than welcomes the help from Apple's WebCore Safari team.

I use Konqueror daily. Without the help from Safari KHTML/KJS would be a year or more behind where it is today.

Be thankful Apple works well with Linux.