Tom's Unedited Rants

Part of my Dec. 5th Consumer Reports post below mentions this misstatement by the magazine: "(An Apple) computer costs more than a similarly featured Windows PC." Today I read an article entitled "Should Apple join the other PC companies in pretending to sell a sub-$500 computer?" on billpalmer.net. This is a great article that goes into detail about how PC companies cut corners so badly to fight to get a machine that's $499. These things can barely be called a computer, and need quite a few upgrades right out of the box to be useable. Of course the upgrades cost money, so the $499 thing goes right out the window.