Back to topic... Pisces, I'm not so sure about that "Intel are general-purpose" thing. Isn't SSE a whole set of instructions designed for multimedia? And I know that one of the prime benchmarks for a processor is 3D video games, which use a lot of processor power.
Also, I think that if this was the actual design goal, the Mac would get better performance (e.g. more tracks and plugins) than a comparably-priced PC, and we know this is not the case.
One other thing: if I was a Logic user and Apple offered me a Mac for $700, hell yeah I would take it. But a lot of these people have PCs as the center of their studios, and do not want a dual-CPU solution. They would lose a huge investment in software and hardware, and to people like that, a $700 computer is not going to make up for the thousands they will leave on the other computer... or that one "killer app."
My best example of this is a friend of mine who produces in LA. He uses Logic on a PC with FruityLoops VSTi and Devine Machine VSTi, two PC-only plugins, as his main production system. Changing to a Mac would not help him one bit; his main system has just become obsolete. So changing over to Cubase SX was a necessity, not a "personal choice." As a working electronic music producer, he needs to know that his software will always be supported, bugs will be fixed, and new features implemented. I know you agree with me that Apple really made a brutal decision to drop Windows support, but I'm just pointing out the kind of scenarios it caused.
Anyway, I love my Mac, I love my PC. If you can have both, and find justifiable uses for them, they both rock.
I can't believe I just posted in a Mac v.s PC thread. I must be more bored than I think...