I've been a Mac user since the late 90s. Believe it or not you used to be able to get a Mac for under $1k. Usually, through student discounts and back to school

I've been a Mac user since the late 90s. Believe it or not you used to be able to get a Mac for under $1k. Usually, through student discounts and back to school sales. My last desktop Mac was a Powermac G4 tower. The next gen was the Powermac G5 with double the price! There was no upgrade plan going forward. $2500 was wildly out of my budget. A few years later, after Apple released the first intel macs, I discovered the osx86 wiki, gave it a shot and it worked! I built a Hackintosh that was almost as powerful as a full MacPro, Intel Q6600, 16GB RAM, RAID10 HDD, for 1/3 of the price. I've always enjoyed using a Mac since the System 7 days. But in this day and age paying >$1500 for a laptop just seems ludicrous. I'm typing this from a 2011 MBP. I anticipated purchasing a newer 2016 MBP. After this announcement I'll probably look into a refurbished rMBP. Sadly, I believe the entry level xMac is never going to happen. the Mac mini gets no love, the MacPro gets no attention, the iMac gets and it appears the focus is mobile and laptops. So I'll be back on the OSX86 wiki making my shopping list and doing my research once again.