XPost: rec.audio.pro   
   From: nobody@but.us.chickens   
      
   On 4/5/2010 1:13 PM Jim Gibson spake thus:   
      
   > In article , 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?   
   >   
   > Many times. Google for "Mac vs PC cost":   
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   Heh; apparently your news client (Thoth/1.8.4 (Carbon/OS X)) is one that   
   mangles URLs. Here they are un-chopped (and no, you don't need those   
   stupid angle brackets around them):   
      
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc20090415_602968.htm   
   http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2004/05/mac_vs_pc_a_small_cost_compari.html   
      
      
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