At least OSX has WoW so I’m all set. :)

The price is often a sticking point for some people, but I usually ramble on about total cost of ownership (maintenance, repairs, etc.) being lower, how if you were to get a PC with the same specs and parts, the price isn’t very different after all, etc. But I’m sure you’ve heard those all before. And, yes, being able to run just about any OS I like on the system is big selling point. Both my home computer and my laptop can boot into either the Mac OS or Windows, I can run Windows in parallel with the Mac OS (Parallels or Fusion), I can also run the Classic Mac OS in a virtual machine, and if I felt the urge, I could install various flavors of Linux on it as well (although mucking about with the Console and reveling in the BSD-based goodness of the core system usually gets me over that).

I also built a Mac from scratch before, just to prove to people it could be done. Mind you, this was at the tail end of the clone days, so I was able to procure the case/mobo from a UMAX S900 and build everything into that. It’s a little more difficult these days to do something like that from the ground up, but modern Macs are still highly customizable. Besides the options Apple gives you, all the parts are fairly standard, so you can modify/swap to your heart’s content. My last Mac I decided to install a spare ATA ZIP drive I had around into the second optical bay (which did require the use of a dremel to carve out space for the cable, which justified the effort–what’s a good upgrade that doesn’t require power tools?); this one I’ve stuffed with spare HDs, and so on.

And, yes, it always easier to find cheap parts online. Fry’s = teh evilz.

End rambling…now.