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Originally Posted by Alexander
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The displays are overpriced. Most people who use Macs either use the laptops (which I can say, in my opinion, are worth the somewhat-more-than-an-x86 price), or just use another manufacturer's display, like those Dell ones. Personally I hook up an NEC 15" LCD to my PowerBook as a second screen on a regular basis. It's a few years old now (2001 or 2002 I think?), but it works pretty well still.
And I still have a 10 year old monitor from the first desktop my family ever owned (486/66!) as the display for my old, slow, mini-server/Linux box (my beloved PII at 417 Mhz).
But I'm getting offtopic... While Apple may gouge you on some things, other things are rather reasonably priced. The mini, OSX (when compared to Windows), and the iBooks are all rather reasonable. The iMacs aren't too bad either.
Sure, they cost more than a low-end Dell PC, but you pay for quality... Dell's not quality on their PCs... (Bad experiences with Dell laptops... Very bad experiences...)