It's true they do cost more than a Dell or any other value beige-box shifter, but compared to a Sony or IBM (I'm thinking mainly laptops here) the pricing is competitive. A nice spec'ed iBook or iMac costs around a grand. Next year all Apple machines will be based on Intel CPU's and will almost certainly be able to run Windows (although they'll of course ship with Mac OS) so it'll be even easier to switch should you be tempted next time you replace your machine. - Robin On 25 Jul 2005, at 21:00, Martin Thorne wrote: > The only problem with Macs is that they are expensive to buy > compared with > PC's (despite their problems) and they are not easily upgradeable. > > Having owned Acorn Electron & Commodore Amiga computers (both of > which I > still have, and are in working order) before settling on a PC, I'd > be very > reluctant to change again to a Mac. > > Martin. > > > [quoted text snipped - see the-hug.org/quoting.html]