And while there are a couple drag and drop iDVD like apps cheap on the PC side (that work okay), there is NOTHING that so easily and elegantly creates DVD Themes and navigation as easily - NOTHING. Certainly nothing at the INCLUDED price of the computer and or even at the $49 cost.

iphoto looks nice. I don't take a lot of photos so it's not real useful for me but everyone else seems to have thousands of photos lying around.

I'm not a musician but garageband looks like imovie for musicians - it's stilla basic toolset but for 95% of people, it does 95% of what they want to do.

But software is one of those times that's hard to quantify. When you are stumbling around in the morass of MS Moviemaker, you want to scream, I'll pay a thousand dollars if I can just drag and drop, lay in audio, etc ... without having to spin around and jump through hoops and wonder what happened to my file.

But people just don't know any better. On their TV, MS talks about dreams and Hp talks about Shrek - in the stores, they talk up the specs and all the hardware goodies you get - parallel ports - space age technology! (well, the Mercury program ...)