Unfortunately for 400-500 dollars you can't buy anything with Mac Os in it. Is this true? It might be. And yet I'm going to offer this old quote from the Car T

Unfortunately for 400-500 dollars you can't buy anything with Mac Os in it. Is this true? It might be. And yet I'm going to offer this old quote from the Car Talk guys: "In the immortal words of former GM president Roger Smith, when asked by John White, who works for the Boston Globe, what kind of car can an American buy if he wants to buy an American car for under ten grand and if he wants to buy a General Motors car? And Roger Smith thought for a second and said, 'A two-year-old Buick.'" So perhaps the used Mac market would be helpful. I'd be a little bit worried about reliability -- the warranty repair rate on Macs seems a bit higher as Apple and the rest of the PC world continue to push product costs into the nether regions -- but, hey, what do you want for $400? Of course, used Macs hold their prices pretty well, so your statement may be accurate.