Fobotcso
Always glad to see a repentant PC user coming over from The Other Side! Let me know why you think your scanner won't work under OS X..there may be a workaround, or it may work under Classic mode.
As for your question:
Which Mac would people buy if they could have the one they want, and which would they buy if they had to make do with something less?
This is something I'm pondering myself at the moment. I have finally decided to upgrade my steam-driven Performa running OS 8.1 (which still does a lot of the things I want and shows recent Pentium PCs a clean pair of heels when it comes to Photoshop), and am trying to decide what to go for.
Money No Object - Twin processor G4 or Titanium Book
Budget - Lesser G4 or wait for the next iMac
Having said that, I might just wait until January, as reports are coming in that Motorola has finally overcome the G5 MHz issue and has a stable chip running at 1.6GHz, with 2GHz in sight.
WxJx