What you get with a new Mac transcends just the machine itself. With your new machine, you get iLife, which is a complete suite of software that is NOT crippled shareware and demos. They are the full versions. Including Garage Band, which is more than sufficient all by itself to deal with most of our member's basic recording and compositional needs.

If you consider the price of Office, Acid, Cakewalk, Photoshop, and the other innumerable apps you will need to purchase for a PC (or remain using the clunky shareware and crippled demoware versions), the price gap slims dramatically.

iPhoto, iMovie, Mail, iCal, and all the others represent mature apps that get the job DONE, simply and without OS drama.

And you can STILL put Windows on it if you are that masochistic!

What's to lose?
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