The only "snob" and computer ignoramus I see here is you. I've operated a cross platform business and computer consulting business for over thirty-five years, and if you can't get a UNIX based MacBook Pro to connect to "most businesses using PCs," you're a piss poor IT guy. I run SEVEN operating systems on my Mac. . . UNIX™, OS X.10 Yosemite, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and two versions of Linux, all but the first two in sandboxes in Virtual Machines. I have run all seven simultaneously. . . on a network connected to Windows PCs, Macs, and Linux boxes. So much for your claims of “connection” issues.
I just provided you with accurate authoritative pricing of Apple products as of today compared to other top-of-the-line Windows PC products from a major seller, Dell, which you can go and replicate on the web today. Those prices were either HIGHER PRICED for the DELL than the Apple products OR WERE COMPETITIVE, within $40 of each other with better specifications on the Apple product, which proves your claims of being over priced are so much BULL PUCKY!
And for your idiotic claims about the users being driven by “Snob appeal” or ignorance", I general point such idiots like you who make those claims to these photos of the scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labroratory who planned and executed the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission and Landing so they, and you, can see their choice of personal notebook computers:
There are only two non-Apple notebooks in those photographs, and the owners' of the Mac notebooks are neither driven by “Snob Appeal” nor could you possibly say they are incapable of learning the PC’s Operating System. They merely want a reliable system that works with them, rather than one they have to "work on” before they can get any "work done"!
So much for your idiot and insulting claims of “Snob Factor” and “Those who can’t grasp the operation of a regular PC operating system”.