Apples #1 concern is profit and making money, thats about it.. I have an iPod, I think its safe to say that is the only worth while creation Apple has ever made (maybe the phone too)
So many people, so few who know anything.
Apples not out for the money. It never was (except for the period after Steve Jobs was fired for running the company his way i.e. doing a good job and making it a good place to work, which the money suits didn't like), and hasnt been since he was hired back. I've talked to people who work at apple. They have great jobs. It's a comfy, nice place to work for most.
As for the price, I've done comparisons with PC lovers such as some of the people in this thread. Because Apple uses nothing but high end equipment, they are more expensive. This friend and I compared an Apple computer to a computer of equal (or as close as possible) stats from different companies. Apple was the cheapest. (Companies like DELL, HP, GATEWAY, etc).
As for whoever said they have a better processor than new macs...
How did you manage to get something better than a 2.4 GHz processor 4 years ago? Must have cost a fortune.
For all you Mac haters out there, I just feel sorry that you're so ignorant and close-minded. Maybe if you were more of a free-thinker you'd see why a lot of people like Apple.
Oh, and for the record, Vista is a crappy remake of Mac OSX, and the windows environment itself was a stolen remake of the original Mac OS. Brush up on your history.