A PC comparable to a Mac

I'm at a Christmas party in Indiana, and I'm using a really nice notebook called the HP Pavilion dv2000. It has a built-in webcam, a silky smooth trackpad, a glossy finish around the cover, and an Intel Core Duo processor (Mac's processor- Intel Core 2 Duo; more powerful). It's an 'entertainment PC', and it got me really interested. However, I soon found out the problem: the price. The hardware's about 3/4 as good as a Mac, and yet it's over twice as expensive: $2800. So next time somebody tells you Macs are overpriced, let them know that PC's that are less expensive than Macs have sub-par processors, inferior OS's, less features, and so on.

In other words, no matter which computer you buy, you get what you pay for. When you're buying a Mac, you're paying for the industry standard processor (Intel Core 2 Duo at least), built-in webcam, long battery life, glossy glass screen, multi-touch glass trackpad, unibody enclosure (lighter, thinner, safer), better environmental responsibility, and so much more. And that's not even including the beautiful OS that comes with it. Compare that to PC's. When you see a $600 notebook PC, does it have a fast processor? Of course not. You'd have to move up to $700-$800 for that. But even then, does it have the webcam? Nope. Add another $100, so it's $800-$900. If you add a multi-touch trackpad and glossy screen, that's probably $100 together. So now we've moved up to $900-$1000, about the price of a comparable Mac notebook, and yet it's still missing so many features that the Mac has. There's nothing overpriced about them. They are all high-class machines; Apple has no room in its warehouses for crappy $500 computers.

-Derek