Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac?

August 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

I recently got to wondering about Mac versus Windows PC pricing after seeing two HP notebooks on sale at the local Target. One of them, a 14-inch model, the HP DV2946NR, sold for $699.99 and packed 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. Capacity for both features is twice that of the $1,299 MacBook–and shared graphics is 356MB compared with a meager 144MB for the MacBook. I wondered: If Vista notebooks are selling for so little and packing so much, how does this compare with Mac desktops and notebooks?

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  • Henry Spitzer

    Add in the aggravation factor of how much trouble MSFT software is compared to the simplicity and ease of Apple software. Calculate your hourly rate times the number of hours per year you spend dealing with Windows BS, bugs, updates that crash other programs, BSOD’s and it will become clear about why those Windows boxes are so cheap. Cheap is not quality.

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