Right-On, Opus, I DO love my Mac, but you CAN get a lot more puter for the money with a PC.
For $1700 you could build a hellacious Athlon 1.4Gig system that'll be faster and have better components than the Mac...decent 19" monitor included.
It's not the Mac puter that I love, it's the Mac OS. I like it a lot more than Windows98SE. They sell virtualPC with Windows
for the Mac...it's too bad they don't sell virtual Mac OS9.1 for the PC!!!