Apple has always been more expensive but it always amazed me why...
Specifically- before OS X, Macs were a niche thing. Couldn't do much more than graphics and Ed stuff with them and before MS Office not much else. Games for it were slim and Macs were not seen as real business able. Then when they had OS X, added Bootcamp, and other "PC" things like MS Office, more of them sold. In fact it is the ability to dual boot and run PC stuff that makes them appealing. Best of both worlds etc.
So to add to it all, they switched to Intel hardware. Great, at least they dropped the crap that wasn't compatible with the market. However, the prices still remain way too high and you have to spend way too much money for the PC equivalent for higher end stuff.
For example: Go to Office Max, look at laptops with pretty good NVidia graphics and 4GB RAM, now go to Apple and price out a Mac Book Pro with add-on card... it's like a 1400-1600+ dollar difference.
My desktop at home is top of the line, runs Vista just fine, more than 1 big app at a time, just fine. It would be like at min. 10+K for the Apple equiv... Cost me around $1500 only. Maybe another $50-700 for the software I use on it.
Apple is software/hardware proprietary hype and that is bad when you have like 5% of the market.
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Apple has always been more expensive but it always amazed me why... Specifically- before OS X, Macs were a niche thing. Couldn't do much more than graphics and Ed stuff with them and before MS Office not much else. Games for it were slim and Macs were not seen as real business able. Then when they had OS X, added Bootcamp, and other "PC" things like MS Office, more of them sold. In fact it is the ability to dual boot and run PC stuff that makes them appealing. Best of both worlds etc. So to add to it all, they switched to Intel hardware. Great, at least they dropped the crap that wasn't compatible with the market. However, the prices still remain way too high and you have to spend way too much money for the PC equivalent for higher end stuff. For example: Go to Office Max, look at laptops with pretty good NVidia graphics and 4GB RAM, now go to Apple and price out a Mac Book Pro with add-on card... it's like a 1400-1600+ dollar difference. My desktop at home is top of the line, runs Vista just fine, more than 1 big app at a time, just fine. It would be like at min. 10+K for the Apple equiv... Cost me around $1500 only. Maybe another $50-700 for the software I use on it. Apple is software/hardware proprietary hype and that is bad when you have like 5% of the market.