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I have had my PC for nearly 10 years, did one OS change (from Windows 98 to XP), did two hard drive changes, expanded my RAM twice, just changed my processor...it cost me $400 when I bought it but with all the upgrades it cost me $959 total.
On the Mac OS at my job when it was bought it cost $800, we did OS changes four times (Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and now Leopard), when the hard drive went out, we had to send it out because the unit is one unit, we can't take it apart because they don't want you to do that. So far it has cost $1200.
The difference: I can go into my PC and do whatever changes I need, whereas with our Mac we have to send it out for repair and get dinged for shipping and handling if we have to send it to Cupertino.
Add this fact: When I switched over to XP from 98, I only had one crash. With all these changes we had with the Mac I have had enough crashes that it would equal the same number of cast members of AS THE WORLD TURNS when they had a very big cast.
Finally, I am not one to jump onto the latest thing that Apple comes out with because if you have to introduce a new product imporved upon the original product introduced a few months earlier, then it really isn't worth having.
