Seriously though… Macs are not “comparably” priced… they’re overpriced. Sure – they’re fine machines, and they run smooth. But so does the PC I own that cost 1/3rd the cost of a similar MacPro. Don’t make statements that are mostly unfounded.

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- Jon

Macs are also know for their “mac experience” which starts from the box they arrive in to the fancy intro they display before you can even use them. I will admit that physically speaking macbooks are military grade (unibody alloy) vs. the pc competition which seems to have been more fragile with age.

Bottom line, if you can afford it and it works for you, mac is the way to go. if you want more performance and dont exactly care about the box/pretty os colours, then PC is for you.

Funny side note, one of our labs was broken into one night, 2 computers were stolen, both were macbook pros, and pc laptops and desktops were also present but untouched by the thieves. Shows you how even thieves know to steal macs now, so i guess Microsoft also has inherently built in security features, i think the vista sticker scared them away (LOL).

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Over and OUT

apple have won against vista but not gonna win against windows 7

Louis Wheeler tend to come off as a Mac snob. Just because someone may buy a laptop under $1000, does nor mean that they are just going to throw it away after a year. Al it means is that they now how to find value! Apple may sell 90% of the laptops over $1000, but they only have 9% of the market. That is because people like value for their money.

On top of that, there are way more free (or pirated) applications available for Windows than there are for OS X. The same is true for add-on devices like printers, scanners, webcams, etc. If there’s only one driver for a given peripheral, it’s for Windows.

I’m a Mac user, but if I want to watch my Blu-ray movies, I have to boot into Windows. If I want to create or edit a subtitle file, I have to do that in Windows as well. Most games are run in Windows only. Though I have Office for Mac, I need Windows to work on my Access projects for home and sometimes for work.

Now I want to (legally) run Windows in addition to OS X on my Mac, I have to pay for a copy of Windows. And that I after I already paid more for my Mac than I would have for a PC.

Finally, Snow Leopard still has a lot of problems. All or most of those will be fixed when 10.6.2 comes out. But it doesn’t or if it comes out after the release of Windows 7, it is possible that Windows 7 might actually run smoother than OS X.

Now don’t get me wrong, while I’m running applications in OS X on my Mac it is a better user experience (in my opinion). But Owning a Mac is a luxury that many people can’t afford. And the advantages are not compelling enough to get a significant chunk of PC users to switch to Macs.

One error the article is the use of averages, rather than comparable prices:

“The average price of a Windows PC is $537, compared with $1,434 for a Mac, says analyst Stephen Baker of researcher PC Data. “I just don’t think you’re going to have a huge influx of people who have perfectly good XP machines deciding they need to buy an all-new Mac,” he says.”

Except for the Mac Mini, Apple sells no computers below $999. Therefore, a comparison over the total product line distorts information. Apple sells over 90% of the laptops above a thousand dollars. Very inexpensive computers should not be in this average because Apple does not sell them.

If you want to buy a piece of junk that you will throw away in a year, Wintel has a wide variety to satisfy your need. If you want a serious name brand computer, then Apple computers are comparably priced. We Mac users don’t think a computer is an impulse item. We do our homework.