Q: I've seen new laptops with 4 GHz of Ram, to 8GHz maximum of Ram,350GB HHD, 2.00GHz processor speed, and the most important 64bit OS. and they are only $850.00. PD: most of the brands.
A: 4GHz RAM ? I think you meant to say 4GB of RAM. Fastest notebook RAM available today is DDR3 1066MHz (while desktops goes up to around 1800MHz). Apple will also refresh their current Macbook line with Centrino 2 platform : new Core 2 Duo CPUs and DDR3 RAM. Therefore in few months the technological gap between Windows based notebooks and Apple macs will narrow down again. However, Windows based Notebooks will continue to have a lead on cutting-edge technology over macs because of the gaming aspect. Current Windows user base is more than 90% while less than 5% use mac OS (Apple computers), they never did nor ever will be a real competition to Windows (hence Windows notebooks).. Macs were never about performance nor price, I think they are targeting simplicity, reliability and fashion angles.