Nah. Current new price, with a display, is about the same as the laptop, assuming you buy your ram elswhere, as Apple rip you off on the ram. $3.5k all in if you buy it all from Apple. But yeah, for the most part that “little laptop” is about as powerful as the current entry level PowerMac, which is pretty cool. Same goes for the 20″ iMac which is almost half the price of both. In hindsight, the 20″ iMac might have been the better long term choice for me. Perhaps.

I’m sure you’ll cave in on a Mac one way or another, even if it’s just a mini. 🙂