Glen: Most people do not want to build their own system. If you are a hobbyist who enjoys doing that, then fine – have fun! Most people do not care to spend their time on that.

Linus – quit the ridiculous hype

Dell XPS One Desktop 20" screen

Apple: iMac 20" incl kbd + mouse

both: 2GB RAM, 320 GB driv

Dell: — $1,349

add kbd, mouse $100

Total $ 1449

iMac – $1349 $100 CHEAPER!!

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I will bet that your $350 PC will not come close to comparing with a $600 Mac mini

Also with Mac you get the great OSX and the iLife software.

Abramsky appeared to hike up his estimates for RIMM beyond the company's own estimates, before September 25, then jerk them back and downgrade RIMM as soon as they reported earnings in the range they had said — after he saw the price fall. Do analysts play these jerk-the-public-around games so that later readers of their stuff ignorant of the damage they've caused will imagine they were accurate? Deliberately inflating estimates before earnings would reasonably be expected to lead to disappointment. What conflicts of interest would that suggest…an analyst has friends with put contracts or short positions? Anyone notice the bid for $21.70 on Apple that took all the stops out last Wednesday? One day after the Google attacks leading to trades that were canceled? If this isn't terrorism by other means, I don't know what is.

ex ped: How do you do that?

If you decide to build your own box, you can easily end up with a computer twice as fast as the average iMac, but for half the price including a decent 22" monitor. It's a no brainer.

I am not going to waste my comment refuting your worthless post, however on a lighter note, Apple has proved its ability to withstand the most difficult of economic hardships.

Given that the current global economy is in dire straits, people's disposable incomes are no longer at the level where they want to buy a $2500 macbook pro even if they could… but so long as Apple use innovation and value add to fuel their growth all should be well for them in the future. Not to mention the fact that most companies tend to not use apple computers for their offices, which sort of disproves the diagrams in the article above.

the reason you, "and all your technologically challenged" friends cling to apple computers is because you DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE A REAL COMPUTER!

lol to your small brained grasp of technology and how you can't even get your head around a simple device as a computer.

keep on using your macs….you can only remain stupid with your "no brains required to use" technology.

no wonder you dont like PCs; they do tend to be more for the people with the ability to think logically and thoroughly.

i've always liked macs but to compare macs to a PC is like comparing a monkey to Einstein.

sure the monkey is fun to watch and laugh at, but to understand Einstein takes intelligence, an open mind and a lust for learning!

i find it terribly amusing that anybody, let alone the lemming masses that you represent, would claim "he will be honored and remembered as one of the greatest designers and leaders of the world we live in…" "…we will all mourn an incredibly inspiring human being."

if that isn't the most pathetic thing i've read in quite awhile….

how little of a life does a person have, to actually put on a pedestal such a person. no different than any other person and no more capable.

i laugh so much it hurts at such idolizing idiots this country has created.

(i'm betting your an avid american idol watcher and voter as well…..pathetically, pathetic)

you're life, much like your idol praising, is a joke…i'd recommend getting out more and seeing what is really important in your very short time you have on this earth.

i guarantee you it isn't idolizing some person but i also guarantee, you're to blind by your own ignorance to ever see that!

Another piece of the puzzle is the piece in Esquire about Jobs' health. He's beginning to look like the only CEO on Earth with a death watch over his head.

Hate to bring this up, but we all die at one time or another and, should Jobs not report some morning (in the next 50 years) for reasons of mortality, he will be honored and remembered as one of the greatest designers and leaders of the world we live in – so much of it, being the world he and his team forged.

Apple will survive and thrive after his leaving (with at least four years of success based on its huge momentum) and I'm sure some very capable person will pick up the torch and lead the incredible Cupertino team forward.

In the meantime, we will all mourn an incredibly inspiring human being.