Well, so much for the PC loving crowd thinking people will only want to buy cheap x86 hardware. (hehehe).
Well, that just goes to show that when it comes to computers (as in most other things, so I'm not all that surprised) people are willing to pay a little bit more if they believe they're getting their money's worth. A $500 PC has more "horsepower" than a Pegasos, but obviously people are seeing beyond just performance figures. I think it's good that this is happening just as IBM is preparing to manufacture their 64bit PPCs, it won't be just rackmounts and Apples that benefit from those :-)