Then why are you here?
They’ve got “Apple Derangement Syndrome” that all Apple-haters have ... :-) ...
“Quack, quack ...see post #62 ...
To disagree, that’s what happens on FR.
But he does have a point, the $499.99 (More accurately described as $500) box requires the extra hundreds of dollars to get the monitor, the keyboard, the mouse. So you are left with around $1000 spent on the actual computer. I just know that they aren’t for everyone.