As if the current crop of G3's aren't expensive enough..... My employee is shelling out close to $3K each for fully loaded 333-G3's. A typical PII with a similar config would cost little over half that.

And people are saying that MS has a monopoly?

This is insanity! Sure, the G4 might be a fast computer..... But who gives a sh*t if nobody can afford the damned thing? Until Apple figures out that this proprietary bullsh*t isn't going to cut it, most people will stick with Intel/AMD.

Why buy a G3 (or G4) for $3K when you can get a PII for $1.5K?

And to top it off, you get MacOS. The OS that doesn't even have the sense to tell you what the hell its errors mean. We constantly get random errors with all of our Macs -- 7.5.3 all the way up to 8.5.

"Gee, why did my Mac lock up?"
"I haven't the slightest clue."

I run DiskDoctor, rebuild the desktop, reboot... and now it works? WTF? What was wrong in the first place? Can it be prevented? Beats me, since the damned thing won't tell me what the _real_ problem is. I don't give a rat's ass how "easy" the MacOS GUI is to use... from a support perspective its a goddamned nightmare! At least windows will tell you what's wrong! (and in most cases, it can be easily fixed)

Oh, to hell with it..... why can't Apple just die?