[pharzo]

Originally Posted by Toronto it was one of the first to allow you to download them into ipodder, then into your itunes, then plug your ipod into your comp. in the morning, jump on the subway and listen to the news from the morning they did kinda start somthing

Well this was not done by apple...people just started doing this with their ipods, and then apple put the feature into itunes.

Originally Posted by Toronto and by better deal i don't know waht you mean? http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL....0.1.0.0.0.1.0 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...tware&n=541966 unless you are stealing your XP software apple seems to be the better deal

What about the hardware? You forget that in order to use OSX you HAVE to get apple hardware...there is a larger market for Windows based PC's...so you get more choice, there is more competition in that market, so you also get better prices.

And what about software availability? I know you can get VM but it's not quite the same thing...

By better deal i meant that Micro$haft takes all the good features from OSX, and then puts it into their OS's. So you get all the apple goodness, without any of the shortfalls i mentioned