You have to remember that they are trying to make a PC beater, and this is exactly the way to go about it, the price tag at this stage in the game is inevitable, demand has to increase for the tag to fall, and believe me demand will be high; just not at this point.
Hardly a PC beater even at price parity. There's more to a PC then just the CPU.
Wraith was joking, obviously. Weren't you, Wraith?
Please, for the love of everything holy, say you were just kidding!