<p>One quick aside...</p>
<p>Buying a computer is a personal decision. Everyone has different needs.</p>
<p>This comes as a shock to many younger people (particularly young males, which I was a few years back...), but not everyone wants the biggest, baddest, most technically powerful computer. Some of us will give up the fastest GeForce/Radeon for a good keyboard. Some of us will give up 10 gigs of hard drive space for brick and mortar shops. Some of us will give up an inch on the screen for form factor.</p>
<p>This doesn't make us stupid consumers. We value different things. My days of fraggin' and seeing how many FPS I can get out of the newest games are over. I don't want that in a computer anymore. I want a computer that will let me do Excel, Stata, Word, and productivity software. I want a computer that will let me make nice presentations for work.</p>
<p>I want a computer that I enjoy using.</p>
<p>That's why I like my Mac. Do I still use Windows? Yes. But don't tell me that my computer was a ripoff because yours gets 15 more FPS in Oblivion. That's not how it works. Everything is defined by the utility you derive from its use. And I get a lot of utility out of this computer.</p>
<p>No, it's not perfect.
No, it's not the fastest computer ever made.
No, it's not going to turn heads on the 3DMark boards.</p>
<p>But it has done what it's supposed to do, and it's done it very very well.</p>