This has turned into the Mac Fanboy thing that charliegrs talked about. STOP IT!
The fact is, and always has been, Apple charges a premium for their products. The fanboys believe it is do to build quality, etc, or whatever Jobs told them to believe. There are PC's with the same build quality as Mac's, that run the SAME (Yes the SAME) hardware. Intel is Intel, nVidia is nVidia. They do not change how they make their hardware for Mac's or PC's. The PC's cost less because Apple charges more. They have to. They do not sell as many computers as the PC companies do. If it was not for the iPhone and iPod, Apple would have went bankrupt. They almost did then the first iMac came out and saved them for a little while. Then the iPod did the same thing. Still running of the funds from iPod sales, they went to the iPhone.
But no, the Apple Fanboy will defend the honor of Steve Jobs to the end!
Personally, I think that Apple makes good products but charges too much for their products. As for the iPhone, AT&T kept me away from it. I used to have them. I lost calls all the time. Roll over minutes DO EXPIRE!