Just comparing apples to apples here. I don't disagree that most people don't need a $2000 computer, but some of us think we do. You can get a bottom line iMac or miniMac for well under $1000 if you want. If you want to do something other than e-mail and facebook, then you probably need something a little better than what $500 will buy you. Price a Dell with an integrated 24" monitor, 640G hard drive, 4G of RAM, and a 3Ghz processor. It's gonna cost you at least $2500. You can get the same stuff in an iMac for $1800. Again, maybe the laptops are pricey, but you can get the same stuff in an iMac for less than a comparable PC.

OK, just went onto the Dell site and if I were to buy another Dell with the same stuff I got with an iMac, it would have cost me about $150 more for the Dell.