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@Yert:

Do you work on Wall Street? MSFT should be worth about $5 a share.

Wow, Joe. You are starting to get it. I well remember when you were a total windoze fanboy. Congrats. ;-)

Peter, it's far, far easier to write an iPhone app than to make it in the music business. And cheaper--have you paid for any music lessons or instruments lately? :-) However, for both audio tracks and iPod apps, the best price isn't necessarily the highest one, it's the one that brings in the most profit.

The app programmer is making FAR more than the musicians. The 'record' labels are still taking the lion's share of iTunes music profits.

Zato had a point. I had a LOT of these machines as well, and they were all bette than the PC alternatives at the time, mostly because of OS differences. Intel had almost caught up with the early PPCs, but the G3 (which was available in the PowerMac before the original iMac) SKUNKED Intel garbage at the time. (Thank you very much.)

Actually, they were not crap then, and if you wrote about them, you weren't read very widely.

Personally, I think Jobs is just waiting for the right moment to pounce. Perhaps after M$ spends all it's money on Yahoo! or some other incredibly dumb idea.

Don, you nailed it for me. Thanks.

Ian, I don't know where you are coming from with this 'they were crap then' attitude. They most definitely were not crap back then. Nor were they underperforming. They skunked Intel machines rather soundly at a wide variety of tasks/benchmarks. Look it up. Intel had still not caught up to PPC. And Windows 95 was better than Mac OS? No way. Win 95 was still weak though it finally looked decent, it left out so much of what the mac could do easily. Win 95 I think added 'shortcuts' but this was like a bad copy of 'aliases' especially since shortcuts didn't even work over the network.

What really 'saved' Apple wasn't so much the iMac (brilliant marketing though it was). The G3 chip was HUGE. I knew this from my PowerMac G3, which was a wonderfully designed computer, with a door on the side that was much like today's Mac Pro cases--even on the desktop, the whole unit unfolded on the desk so that you could get to any component. Perhaps you were referring to earlier machines, some of those were a bit harder to work with, but the ALL came with great components.

At least for the next year or two, while there still are Nokia, etc... users. :-)

OK, no flying cars, but we have the iPhone. You can't have everything...

What makes me cry are all the wintards that think Microsoft is capable of anything but monopolistic business, stealing, ripping-off other's work, etc...

Windoze only? You're kidding, right? Where is the pathetic version for 'other platforms' (as if more than one survived them?) As if anyone in their right mind ever used I.E. in the first place, let alone now.

There is absolutely no reason for this to be windows only. It is yet another instance of Microsoft taking (from the likes of NASA this time) and using it to push their monopoly.

The argument of security though obscurity is total FUD. Apple enjoys far greater security because the system is far more secure.

Paul, the firewall software changed in Leopard, but Mac has always offered far more sensible default configurations than Microsoft, you are seriously confused about that point.

So you have access to your DNS. I guess you are a windows admin? I can see why are you are so scared by the iPhone. :-)

Why not call someone and tell them their car just got demolished, etc...? That would be equally funny, i.e. not in the slightest.