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"No wonder the revenue is so high, because they get morons to spend their money on way overpriced iCrap." @ boywonderDid you not understand what I just said?Apple along with Dell, HP, Gateway, etc, all sell high margin gear. The more powerful the system the higher the profit margin. Once you go over a $1,000 the price difference begins to disappear when matched feature-for-feature. In truth, they are all are using the SAME hardware and charging the SAME high margins for the premium gear. The difference is that Apple gear is better designed and runs all of the OSs, OSX, Windows, Linux, Unix, etc,.Single processor Celeron box = low marginQuad processor Xeon box = high marginSure, Apple doesn't sell a sub-$500 box and only a handful of sub-$1,000 boxes, but these sub-boxes wether they are made by Apple, Dell, HP, or Gateway are just that sub-standard. Of course someone will jump up and scream that they can build a monster box for under a $1000, but they often don't include the cost of the OS or have many of the bells and whistles that the premium gear over a $1,000 does and usually look like crap. How many Quad processor boxes with an OS installed run under $1,000?Also, as too many geeks do, they only factor in the cost of the hardware and give little credence to the cost of good design. Fortunately, consumers do see the value in good design over price-vs-raw features, just as they do with shoes, cars, clothes, and houses. Which is why the iCrap as you call it sells so well. Why pay less for an ugly and overcomplicated MP3 player when you can get one that looks good and is simple to use? Geeks have time to screw around, most other people don't; time is money.In the end what bring profit down for Dell, HP, and Gateway is that they are willing to sell you anything, including unprofitable budget boxes and ugly consumer electronics, because thats all they know how to do.

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