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Big OSX fan, but I'm without a mac

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sway:
i have a pretty simple answer to the apple prices. it might not be fully accurate, but what the hell.

when you buy a macintosh, you are paying for apple to also develop firewire, work with ibm/motorola on the powerpc processors, develop software, and so on. also, apple is in fact a "designer company" -- you pay a bit extra for the "shiny plastic"

Laukev7:
Right on. Apple has to pay for the innovation and for the R&D.

But there's also the fact that Macs include all the good stuff. For example, if you compare an $799 USD eMac with a $399 Wintel, you'll notice that the wintel may not include a monitor, or use a celeron processor. And once you upgrade the computer to a level similar to that of the eMac, you often get about the same price, or even a higher price.

Fett101:
Let's take a peek at Best Buy's weekly ad.

eMachines machine
2.2ghz
17" flat screen moniter
128 MB DDR
48x CD-Rom
40 GB HD

Aprox $600 (hard to read the small print)
$379.97 after rebates.

Emac
800mhz PPC G4
128 Sdram
40 GB HD
CD-Rom (No speed given.)
built in 17" flat screen
ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB DDR

$799

Though really, that's just happens to be one PC I ran across in the ads, and may not acurately reflect current market prices, but as far as I know... it does.

And despite such, MS has to spend on R&D too. Tab

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