The situation sucks if you want to buy a PC that is not Apple these days. There are some good alternatives, but they are impossible to identify among the zillions of crappy offers. Even PC makers that offer good PCs make it impossible to select them (for example Samsung used to be good - I don't even know anymore, they've got like 100 models, presumably some are good and some are bad...).<p>Apple has been making inroads into the PC market, so the old model of fooling the customer doesn't really work anymore. Why do they all stick to the outdated model, and why would they also try the same thing with mobile phones?