Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Apr 2009 22:09 UTC
While we generally don't really report on Apple rumours (for obvious reasons) I thought the one currently making its rounds across the countless copying/pasting Apple websites is pretty interesting discussion material. According to the ominpresent and omnipotent "people familiar with the matter", as told by AppleInsider, Apple is preparing to compete on... Price.
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RE[3]: Hardware Quaility
by darknexus on Fri 1st May 2009 12:54
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RE[3]: Hardware Quaility
by unclefester on Fri 1st May 2009 13:02
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RE[4]: Hardware Quaility
by darknexus on Fri 1st May 2009 13:07
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Raptor drives are made by Western Digital. 
Don't tarnish an awesome drive with the Seagate name. The rest of your points are spot on, the os and the case are the main differences between Macs and PCs aside from the use of EFI on the motherboard, which I wish would be adopted by PCs as well. When you get right down to it, Macs are overpriced, slightly above average hardware in an awesome case.
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...But still run slower. Windows is simply not as efficient as OS X, which is also not preloaded with a ton of crapware.
I often find that a cheap high-spec machine on paper is still dog-slow because of poor quality harddisk, memory bottlenecks, or simply terrible GPUs.
There is a reason a Mac is one of the fastest computers for running Windows, and it’s not just the spec printed on the box. It is a quality, custom motherboard, chipset & GPU and it is EFI instead of BIOS.
You get what you pay for, and the Mac is still value-for-money in a market of over-inflated numbers.