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Wow, 4 out of 10. You were being nice. Considering it is their own messenger system and they have video and audio in their Windows side, I would give them a 2 for being too lazy to get feature parity. At least it could have been a good Michael Jackson song...

I'd love to see iTunes get split off and become what it used to be. iTunes = music. You can buy music, play it, stream it. That's it. Movies and podcasts and TV shows can go somewhere else. iMediaPlayer? Heh.

I didn't forget those $400 computers. Mind actually reading for content? "The difference is that Macs don’t really go low end. The mini is as cheap as they come and it still comes with a better chip than a few of the HPs I was looking at yesterday for about the same cost. " I referred to the Macs not going low end. I then say the mini is as cheap as they come. Cheapest Mac. I can see where the misread could happen. I did not say it is as cheap as PCs come. I did say it is as had a better chip than PCs at about the same cost. If you are going to insult someone that essentially AGREED with you on almost every point you are going to find the few people that ever agree with you are going to see less people agreeing with you. Picking and choosing what people say to make them sound bad when you couldn't even get the quote right ain't winning you any allies either. Having seen the difference in longevity for 5 years at a place with over 1500 computers, I can tell you that some PCs can last as long as Macs. Most will not. The better quality machines always last longer in any case. Cheap machines are just that. Cheap. Using my personal experience I said those cheap PCs would be dead in 2 years. Why? Because I have seen them fail first hand. And just like buying $50 boots every year for 4 years while someone else buys $150 boots once, it loses you money on the long term.

The figures already show the Mac Pro is probably about $300 less than an almost exactly configured Dell. Add a windows license and you can assume about the same cost. Price hasn't been a real issue for a while. The difference is that Macs don't really go low end. The mini is as cheap as they come and it still comes with a better chip than a few of the HPs I was looking at yesterday for about the same cost. When corporate IT managers have the ability to get equal hardware and get the extra software of OSX as a bonus, you might see more buy a few and experiment with one. Eventually this will translate into OSX being used more by the end client in places other than graphics.