Not a bad deal, given there's only one real player in the market of selling macintoshes.

You get way more bang for buck buying an OEM or DIY PC but you can't get a mac for that price.

OS/X is a VERY impressive OS, despite being quite bloated and having Aqua, that eye-candy processor intensive and ultimately klunky user interface... (ONE BUTTON MICE? Come on, mate?). There's also a lot to be said about objective C which IMO is probably a lot cleaner and intuitive than C++.

Thank heavens you have to buy your own keyboard and mouse for the ones apple sells are, pardon my french, sh!te.