Originally Posted by
CrazyOne
The price issue is more one of choices not of "the Mac costs more". It doesn't cost more if you compare like stuff. If instead you say, well, Apple's low end laptop costs $1100 and I can get a low end Windows laptop for $600, well, that's true. If you stop there, though, you're leaving out the fact that a $500 laptop is somewhat lacking in various areas.
They keep saying that, but it never works out that way in real life. That also doesn't include the cost of software that Windows users already use and the need to buy it again for the Mac. That cost is way too high for me, and is probably the real reason I haven't switched to a Mac.