Apple Introducing "state of the art new products at prices their competitors can't match"

Yes! Apple gives Apple logo stickers with every product & It's upto you to decide whether you want to stick them back of your monitor or somewhere else
Different people have different tastes and buying an Apple computer is their decision. Most people still buy Windows because of the gaming capability, Other than that both OSs are doing same thing.

BTW Who said you to compare Dell with Apple?

 

Haha...it's good "instigation material"...it's like fishing, if you've got the right bait, the big fish are destined to BITE! =D

...I hope Apple does come out with something AWESOME. As a true tech-geek, I love seeing new gizmos come out. Besides, it makes for good competition. nothing like good 'ole capitalism to spark a good "arms" race with computer manufacturers to see who can release the biggest and baddest for us to play with.

 

Instead of biggest and baddest, I prefer the price concious aspect of competition. But those with deep wallets surely like the biggest and baddest too.

 

I hope it comes out by mid August, since I can't wait much longer than that

 

...I hear you there. Every once in a while I get to know someone who has a loaded desktop, or the latest gizmo. And then when I'm lucky I get to play. But I benefit from the price wars more than the arms race. I would consider a Mac in the future if prices came down, but we'll see what happens.

 

Agreed. I didn't upgrade to Leopard until a few days ago, and I had it given to me for free at launch. I just couldn't be bothered to install it until now Though I have used it at work a lot. But really, the differences are pretty minimal for the most part - there are nice things about it for sure, but nothing strictly necessary.

 

I wish that were true, but alas I'm pretty sure that even if that might be coming, it's not going to be the next release. Next release will be laptop changes of some sort, right after the back to school promotion ends or thereabouts I would guess. We can keep hoping for a Mac Mini refresh... though I'll probably end up buying a current one instead of keep waiting, it really is enough for my needs. I just keep holding out hope for a newer-generation integrated GPU like the x3100 or, at this stage, x4500.