My god, browse the web for half an hour and you find 100 sites and blogs of so-called techies and analysts and editors that will tell you that Macs are more expensive and have less power then a “dell”. It is amazing that high end laptops from apple are compared to lowend machines from dell. Why don’t you compare them to IBM Thinkpads which are in the same class? Oh I know, because you wil loose 99% of your points. I mean I specced out a dell that has the features that I wanted from my Macbook Pro and it came in at 200 Euros more expensive, still didn’t run OS X.

Also, it seems that noone, not a single one of those people, takes into consideration what comes with the machine.

The fact that everything I buy (devices) just seemlessly work. Oh and before you start: ” but peripheral X won’t work”, let me ask you: if you spend good money on a high end laptop why would you save on the accessories and not buy the one that works with it? And honestly, what peripheral would be needed still nowadays on a Macbook(Pro)? I have an external DVDRW via USB2 hooked up to it and it worked perfectly fine (its an ASUS).

Then, security was at the heart of the design of OS X and it comes with strong home directory encryption, that works seemlessly without user interference.

Most of the people that I get to buy a Mac (even the lowend ones) have not wanted to go back.

Oh one more thing… how many PC’s do you know from 5 years ago that run Windows XP (in a production system, this means installed all the stuff you need to survive on the internet, not behind a proxie or whatever) smoothly and without problems? Well I know at least ONE ibook G3 (600mhz, 384MB Ram) that is used on direct internet and works with no problems at good speed , even with Office for Mac running.

Now here is the last thing I would like to point out:

How many OEMs SUPPORT multiple competing operating systems and provide you with up-to-date drivers for at least one other OS for free (Apple bootcamp does exactly that!)

//Flosse

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