Meh, i 'built' my computer with about $900 w/o the monitor (or orignal windows 8D).
Specs:
nForce 680LTSli motherboard
intel 2.4Ghz E6600 C2D processor
GeForce 8500GT GFX card
2 Gigs APOGEE ram (1*2GB in dual channel)
320GB SATA Western Digital HDD
Yeah that's about it. I payed like $35 or something for a PC case. Nothing fancy or known, but either way i don't need a great case
Basically Mac is for people who hate Windows and have a bunch of extra money
Edit: Look at my sig, that message is actually real. Look how LOW apple have sunken, that they actually promote their product because you can install windows alongside it. Seriously that's just pathetic. However i think that the Mac OSX is probably pretty good, even though i didn't try it, but most people hate it because it's too expensive, has bad support for a crapload of programs/games etc., and that it's completely different and would take time to get used to. What's that you say? Linux has even WORSE support than Mac? Well yeah ofcourse but the difference is that Linux is free, and there are some patches which make windows progs work.