I really don't like the iMac concept...you would think Jobs would have learned from Alan Sugar's (Amstrad) mistakes in the 80s...
Amstrad sold typewriters with monitors attached, and a few 8-Bits, pretty much UK exclusive as far as I know. How is this relevent to apple?
when your LCD/Motherboard goes kaput you need a spare iMac...when your PC fails you only need another PC not monitor x2 and vice versa.
Luckily they don't go "kaput" very often. Mine still hasn't, and it's 11 Years old.
I've tried. It's fell off desks and everything.
And Toshiba make superior ultra lightweight machines (and have done, being the inventor of libretto and portege models) to Apple since the 90s.
It's funny you mention Toshiba, i've got a 310cds laptop here, and you could probably beat someone to death with it, lcd first, and it'd be unharmed. It weighs about half a stone even with the battery removed though.
Those rubbish flat keyboards for their desktop are horrible to use also, I've used better laptop keyboards on a daily basis!
Once you get used to them they are unquestionably superior. Easier to type on, almost silent, and... Pop a few keys off your keyboard with a pen or something. You won't break it, unless it's a laptop. They'll go back on fine. See all the bits of crisps, dust, fluff, a few pubes? That stuff
can't end up in the current mac keyboard.
They feel really weird before you get used to them though, and I've not got one because I refue to pay thirty odd quid for a keyboard. £7 Argos jobby for me thanks.
People will buy Apple despite the cost and convince themselves it's the best....just like BMW Z4 drivers who read the bullshit in the manual that it is the fastest production electric roof 
That's kind of daft. The price of a BMW/Apple is reflected in the build quality very clearly. The main difference though is that a new BMW is hideous. It's like they style all the cars by getting a 90's one, and covering it in dents.
At any rate, I've never actually bought an iMac brand new, and have only ever had this one, single apple product. The current iMac is great, and the form factor is exactly what I want. But I cant afford it, so I settle for a a Hackintosh taking up legroom under my desk.
Best looking PC I ever owned was from those idiots @ Packard Bell....however just once they managed to produce a computer with touch sensitive case for DVD drives (concealed) in a gorgeous white shell that would look at home in the movie set of the film 2001.
Which one? My sister had one (cant remember the model) that looked okay. Comedy PB moments were: She couldn't figure out how to play a dvd, refused to beleve the CD burner could also read CDs (whaaa?) and got angry if you proved her wrong, she installed a sound card without looking at the instructions or installing drivers ("what would I want to drive my computer for? it's not a car") then was surprised when it didn't work, destroying her CRT by spraying the insides with furnature polish (WHHHY), and blowing up the PSU doing the same.
But I digress.
Everyone has personal tastes of their own but still....price is price....and OSX is no better than Linux with a different GUI.
Which is one hell of a difference. Every desktop enviroment, toolkit and even the X Window system itself is universally shite.
Ugh. I think the only system to do it worse was windows 3.x.
