Apple Products..... confusing

desktops:
PowerMac > iMac > eMac > mini Mac

laptops:
PowerBook > iBook

honestly, what is so hard about that?

It's just like dell with the lattitudes and inspirons.

the biggest difference is that thier best computer costs $5,000 (american Dollars) and their crappiest cost $500. Everything in between is just the same thing with different prices and (barely) diffrent hardware.

iMacs are the cute little compact things, or one of them. The powermacs are towers using their most powerful parts, and are fully upgradable. New ram, video cards, pci card, whatever can go in a powermac.

i see.
i thought it was something else.
$5000... geez.
i think they'd save more money if they didn't try to advertise their computer(s) on every TV show/movie. but that's just me.

Apple tends to keep two lines of products. The iMac is the top of the line for their consumer computers, and the PowerMac is the top of the line period, with dual processors in most configurations(duals ranging from $2000 for dual 1.8 Ghz G5s, to $3000 for dual 2.5 Ghz G5 processors). Granted, you can make it very expensive, very quickly, but I would suggest, as others do, not to upgrade memory with Apple directly, but to buy it from another store. There are other reasons, but if you look at the specs, I am sure you can find the differences.