What sells PCs is price. The amount of people who have cared about technical specifications of hardware has always been slim. This forum is not representative of the larger population.

I hate to tell you this, but Dell and HP didn't become empires selling good computers. They became empires winning huge corporate and government contracts for 50,000 low-tier workstations at $299. Apple wasn't even part of that market. The only place Apple was ever able to compete was in areas where the POWER PC architecture was superior—and there are a lot of areas where that was true—it just wasn't the home desktop or corporate workstation. POWER is still used today by IBM.



Once again you make my point. That 299 dollar computer has become exponentially faster and stayed the same price. That's why they sell not just because they are cheap. Even when you are buying low tier computers you still upgrade when you need something faster not when the computer "wears" out. I have Dell PIII's that work fine. They just slow as crap.