I always love these type of windows bashing upgrade cost that end in "this will only encourage more people/business to switch to Mac". Why so the can run less programs? So they can spend more for the same PC hardware? So they can run boot camp to have a worthwhile system? So they can pay for service packs that Microsoft provides for free? I have friends frequently ask "Should I buy a PC or Mac" I always tell them if you have some specific need then buy a Mac. Owning a Mac is more expensive. Yes the numbers above might be true if you had an 3 year old PC and were going to upgrade but if you PC is relatively new the only cost you will have is the OS. Which is only the cost of 2 Mac service packs. How many have they had on the last OS now 4 and don't forget the initial investment for the OS nothing like paying for your OS 5 times just so it can have the features it should have had the first time or at the very least for free.
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I always love these type of windows bashing upgrade cost that end in "this will only encourage more people/business to switch to Mac". Why so the can run less programs? So they can spend more for the same PC hardware? So they can run boot camp to have a worthwhile system? So they can pay for service packs that Microsoft provides for free? I have friends frequently ask "Should I buy a PC or Mac" I always tell them if you have some specific need then buy a Mac. Owning a Mac is more expensive. Yes the numbers above might be true if you had an 3 year old PC and were going to upgrade but if you PC is relatively new the only cost you will have is the OS. Which is only the cost of 2 Mac service packs. How many have they had on the last OS now 4 and don't forget the initial investment for the OS nothing like paying for your OS 5 times just so it can have the features it should have had the first time or at the very least for free.