Re:Cheap, but not cheap enough. (Score 1)

Your dell was also LESS than half the speed. Half the speed for half the price. Its a fair trade off. And what, pray tell is a DVD-CD? Things that can burn both DVDs and CDs are generally called "DVD burners", seeing as there hasn't really been any major DVD burners that couldn't also handle some CD-RW. Also with Apple's desktops you pay for very good workmanship. I wish I could say the same for their laptops, but the evidence is against them (I'm a PowerBook G4 Ti user on his third set of hinges and second screen :P) Personally I disagree with both the Dell approach and the Apple approach myself. Build your own damned PC, it isn't that hard! ...remember the standoffs.