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Last week I had the devils own time migrating files from my old laptop to the new one - although, as I stated earlier today, it seems that a lage part of the problem was the WiFi card I was using. Still, the whole experience made me interested in considering the Mac. So there we were this evening, at CompUSA - my wife wants a new machine that can better handle video and digital photos than the underpowered system she now has. Yet again, I had it made clear to me that the Mac just isn't in the cards.

Consider what I was looking at - a Mac (a G4 mind you, not even a G5) that ran $999, and a PC that was priced at $800. The Mac had an 80gb HD, 256 MB memory, 2 USB ports and 2 Firewire ports. The PC had 1 gb memory, a 200 gb HD, 7 USB ports, 3 Firewire ports, and a bunch of ports for memory sticks (only a few of which I recognized). The PC came with a monitor (one of the thin screen flat deals) and an HP printer/scanner/copier. The Mac came with a monitor. So heck - a less powerful system, with fewer useful ports - for nearly $200 more.

As it happens, we didn't buy the PC - my wife still wants to shop around. I'd like a Mac, but boy - it would be awfully hard to actually justify buying one with those price points.