No offense, but the people who say they can get an equivelent or better PC for the price of a Mac are clueless. ZDnet did a story on just that back in January, saying it's 1/3 the cost, then 2 weeks later did a story correcting themselves saying Mac is cheaper...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=942&tag=rbxccnbzd1
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=979&tag=rbxccnbzd1