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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Laurence Payne   wrote:   
   >On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 08:59:06 -0700, Audio Empire   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>No, I'm talking about the OS, mostly. The build quality of Macs is better   
   >>than MOST Winboxes, but when you compare a like priced Winbox to a   
   >>like-priced Mac, they're pretty much the same hardware-wise. IOW, a $2500 PC   
   >>and a $2500 Mac Pro are pretty comparable wrt build quality. The difference   
   >>is that there isn't much market for a $2500 Windows box. Most of that action   
   >>is in the $500 range and below where Apple does not play at all.   
   >   
   >Now that Macs ARE using essentially the same hardware as PCs, it   
   >should be easy to compare the price of comparable computers with and   
   >without the Mac label.  Has anyone done so?   
      
   It's sort of hard to.  For the most part, the Mac hardware is more solidly   
   built than the typical PC desktop machines, but without the performance of   
   the high end PC server boxes.  It's priced somewhere in-between, which seems   
   reasonable.   
      
   Laptops are a different story, though, and I can't speak to those.   
      
   Buying more solidly built hardware is a good thing if you intend on keeping   
   it a long time, but it's a bad thing if you have a short replacement cycle   
   mandated by technological change.   
   --scott   
      
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