“Buying a Mac to run Windows increases his cost an order of magnitude
Well, of course if cost has to be your only consideration, you should go with a cheap windows box or old computer with linux... or a Yugo.
I have two macs. One is marginally functional after 4 years. The other is about a year and a half old, it has been in the shop once for major hardware failure within a month of purchase and it is randomly giving memory and graphics errors now.
I just don’t see Mac hardware as being that much better and the software is a personal preference thing.
I spent the extra money for Macs, it did change one aspect of my purchases, I bought an upscale Windows laptop, I really did appreciate the backlit keyboard and superior screen on the Mac.