5) Schools are dumping Macs for PCs.
The truth to this one is yes and no. There are many accounts of school districts going all-PC for the sake of standardization and lower initial purchase price.

However, Apple still accounts for half of the computers in education, they say. And despite a decline in recent years in their education market share, Apple said at their April 2004 shareholder meeting that their education share has gone up since 2003. More importantly, their share in the K-12 laptop market is steadily climbing, which according to technology analyst IDC, means a great deal, because they predict laptop sales in the education market will surpass desktop sales in three years.

6) Apple is switching to AMD chips.
This "wild-ass rumor," as some call it in frustration, has been popping up for years. It was at its height in 2002 after Steve Jobs, when asked if Apple would consider switching away from the PowerPC architecture, said, "We like to have options."

Observers suggest Jobs let rumors fly in order to give Apple leverage when negotiating to purchase processors.
Now that Apple is touting the power of the G5's 64-bit chips made by IBM, which their entire operating system is geared toward, most Mac users consider it highly unlikely that Apple would choose to switch to AMD now.

7) Macs are toy computers.
Anything based on Unix is more than a toy, considering that this is the primary operating system for scientific research and computer programming.

Some of the most high-profile scientific enterprises on the Mac include research at the National Institute of Health and the creation of the Terascale Cluster at Virginia Tech, which involves 1,100 G5s linked together to create the third-fastest supercomputer in the world.

The university announced this year it was already upgrading the supercomputer by replacing the G5s with Apple's Xserve® G5 servers that have two chips in each box.

This supercomputer, created to do calculations for subjects such as nanosecond electronics and computational chemistry, demonstrates that the Mac is definitely not a toy.
Unless that is what you want it to be.

8) "Macs don't have color displays," and other ancient Myths still heard in 2004.

Mac users report that some of the most mind-boggling and outdated Mac myths of all time are still in circulation, and frighteningly, often come from those making computing decisions on behalf of businesses or educational facilities. They come from those who have apparently never used a Mac, at least within the last decade. Some of the favorites reported:

"They can't be attached to the Internet. They can't be attached to the LAN. Macs don't support USB. We need to use MS Office® and Internet Explorer,® which aren't available for the Mac."

There isn't enough room here to address misconceptions this serious. To anyone who actually needs it: just sit down at a Mac and see what you've been missing.