If you put all these numbers aside, and look at what you can actually *do* with this machine, it makes the whole package a lot more attractive. With the funky lamp-shaped iMac, anyone from a sysadmin to your grandma can take video footage from a camera, edit it into a custom video with slick titles and transitions, then burn it to a DVD with custom graphics, titles, video, audio, and all with just pointing and clicking, and faster than a 2Ghz P4 Sony VIAO desktop w/ DVDR . Compare that to the hundreds of dollars of software and hardware you'd need to add to the off the shelf PC, the configuring, setup to get the apps to recognize the hardware, then hours spent learning to use the apps with less features and more headaches, and the iMac makes a lot of sense. For some people, computers aren't just about big numbers, water-cooling, and framerates. Obviously DDR would be an improvement, but which computer do you really want your mom* using?
That aside, this isn't really a hot deal. Even if the iMac is hard to get, I can't see paying full MSRP as a hot deal.
*if your mom is a kernel hacker this doesn't readily apply.
