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Half? Seriously? Half of the cost? So you're saying the exact same hardware in Apple computers....exact same hardware...costs half as much on a Windows based computer?I mean, I know the idiots out there like to compare a $300 cut-to-the-bone, cheap entry-level Wintel machine to an $4000 8-core Mac Pro to show how overpriced Macs are...but to say that Macs cost double for the same hardware is an outright lie. Come on...there's other arguments for you Apple bashers to go with that make a little more sense, but this is just stupid now.

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That is why I won't purchase any Apple hardware ever again. I don't want hardware that was designed to accuse or sabotage me when I have the audacity to connect my Ipod to another one of my PCs. Case in point, several years ago, I made the mistake of purchasing songs from Itunes. I loaded them onto my Ipod and everything was hunky dory. A few months later, I connected said Ipod to another PC that had Itunes installed, but that I had not authorized to play my crippled content. The Ipod/Itunes took the liberty of DISABLING my purchased music that was stored ON THE IPOD without my permission, or even informing me. Make no mistake, the files were still on the Ipod (as were all my files that weren't purchased from Itunes), they just refused to play. I didn't try to copy the infected files to the new PC from the Ipod or anything... I just connected it and then had to go back and reauthorize on my desktop PC.That was when I officially decided to stop buying hardware that works for and serves someone else. When it comes to portable players, Ogg Vorbis and Universal Mass Storage support are the only way to ensure you are in control of your device, so that's the direction I've gone. Selling uneducated users hardware that is designed to sabotage them is immoral and wrong.That said, I know a couple of people who recently switched from Windows machines to Macs, and I see it as a good thing. If other people want hardware that oppresses them, that's fine with me. I just don't want a large company like Microsoft calling all the shots when it comes to DRM and the like because then all of the users suffer. I would like to see the situation with portable music players changed. As it stands, when you buy a player, you either have to support the Windows Media form of digital restrictions malware, or the Apple one. Somebody needs to sell a device that is clean and untainted by large companies that want to lock you into their software.

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Also, to the person who said that the government needs to protect consumers from being exploited by DRM and lock-in, have you heard of the DMCA? Our government sold us out over ten years ago when this law was passed. Now the conspirators can use "DRM" for all sorts of nifty things like forcing you to purchase new hardware at no benefit to you. "Ya know that HDTV we sold ya 6 years ago? It isn't corporate malware compliant, so don't expect to watch those HD movies on it!" Or how about an operating system vendor being able to make all my movies/music go poof if I ever switch platforms? That's the Windows way my friend! I am by no means saying Apple is solely to blame. I think everyone should start refering to DRM as corporate American malware because it has nothing to do with copy prevention and everything to do with consumer exploitation.

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I had to register just because of your post. No, I'm not talking about Apple. Never drag politics into technology columns. Or you'll be beaten to death. Maybe by me.

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