Ok now to use your same point against you. The reason windwos machines are attacked more often on the Internet is htey are the most deisrable target.
Hey we agree. Both are about equally secure or insecure, the only difference is which one is more desirable. In competition hackers will want the overpriced item, in the real world hackers will want the most users to get the most bang for their buck.
Now we finally agree.
Not at all the same thing. You are assuming that everything else is equal and it is not. It is much easier to write malware for one platform than it is to write for the other... and that makes a big difference. That differential has made all the difference for the past ten years and continues to make a big difference in the choices the malware writers have made about which platform they write their malware for. The evidence for your position is entirely against it. We know the malware authors are willing to write malware for small demographic targets because they HAVE done so... and done so profitably... and we have posted numerous examples of their micro-malware efforts. They just have not been successful in writing malware for the very large Mac platform because it is difficult to do so.
As for Macs being overpriced, the price of anything is what a willing seller and a willing buyer are able to agree it's worth... and millions of transactions have established the price of Macs. Ergo, it is not overpriced. The value of the PCs have been established as well... very low.