This is the real world where Psystar exists and a Dell MacBook Pro does not. Would a $400 Dell Mac be better than a $400 Psystar Open Computer? I’m sure it would. But the problem is one is real and the other is hypothetical. I’m sure an IBM eMate G7 iPhone would be pretty cool, too, but while it remains in its nonexistent form, my very real Nokia 6120 is better.

The true comparison should be better the very real Psystar Open Computer and the equally real Mac Mini. In that comparison, (sound aside) the Psystar wins. It has a *MUCH* faster processor, more RAM, over 3 times the storage, a DVD burner, is user upgradeable (hard drive, video card, optical drive, RAM, etc.), and costs HUNDREDS less. If you have Psystar install the OS, then it’s still $50 less – for a much better system.

Apple’s market share has been gradually increasing with every passing year/quarter (in both the business and personal arenas).

It seems to me that all they have to do is keep doing what they have been doing and it’s just a matter of time before this “little company” and Microsoft swap places. They’re doing great – 2nd quarter revenue of $7.51 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, 43 percent revenue growth. (54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter).

Granted, Microsoft may have made more money last quarter, but they’re revenue growth was only 30%. and if they keep doing what they have been doing (products like Vista), it won’t be too long before the roles are reversed!

How much time before Apple catches up is open to interpretation, but the fact is that the gap is getting smaller every day.

Dimension series: Black.

Optiplex series: Black, silver front bezel.

Inspiron desktop: Silver

XPS: Varied (but absolutely no beige or “putty” color)

Precision Workstation: Black.

Here, try this on for size: Go to eBay.com, do a search for Dell Dimension. When you find the beige cases, find one that ISN’T a previous-gen Pentium 4 or earlier. Seriously. Go find one.

Even better: Do the same search for Dell XPS or Dell Dimension XPS. Guess what? No beige-colored boxes with anything over Pent-4’s in them.

These are all boxes built years ago (well before 2007). And Pent-4 obviously isn’t new.

Sorry, but your claim to have a beige-colored Dell box with “fairly new parts” as you say doesn’t cut it because Dell had no beige-colored new offering in ‘07 or ‘08.

I think that Dell made computers running OSX would be a great thing.

In order for Apple to “gradually increase market share”, they need to start thinking about more than keeping OSX out of nonnative machines. Sure, the way they are going right now will last for a while, but they can’t even try to outpace Microsoft unless they change some of their policies, and become more like a big business. They are a great little company, but without future changes in the way they do business, they will reach a point where their growth will stop.

There would be a huge market for a non-apple OSX computer, and the only thing holding us back is Apple…

When I worked for Dell as a field service tech I never saw a beige colored box OR laptop – and this was several years ago.

Could you list the model you speak of along with the manufacturing date/year? The last time Dell made anything beige was over 5 years ago.