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The article presents a stupid argument. Most folks don’t sell their PCs every year. Purchase price is the only real gauge of what you’re paying and the Mac will set you back at least 50% more than the comparably equipped PC.

Aside from the logo you really don’t get that much more for your money.

For your money you get a complete suite of software designed to interact with each other... and you get a rock solid OS ... as well as top of the line engineering.

Worse, if you become a “Mac person” you’ll end up virtually computer illiterate and unable to use real PCs in the real world.

Now you are just being insulting... My experience is just exactly the opposite. Most Mac users are also Windows users at their place of work... and have chosen to buy a Mac for their home use. They are actually computer bi-lingual, so to speak. Most Windows users have never even touched a Mac, much less know how to use one.

Unfortunately I’m just about to shell out 3K+ for a Mac tower because my wife can’t seem to do her job on the PC that we just bought for 1/3 of that. . .

If you have Macs scattered about your house, why are you buying a new one? One of the others could probably do the job.

But the point was to establish a per month or per year cost of ownership... Purchase price minus cost recovery at resale divided by months or years of ownership. The cost per time period comes out lower for the Mac.

Except that almost nobody ever re-sells their old machines.

I've got 3 older Macs and several older PCs lying around that we've upgraded from and either converted to newer uses (give to the kids, etc.) or that are waiting to be scrapped.

For your money you get a complete suite of software designed to interact with each other... and you get a rock solid OS ... as well as top of the line engineering.

Office is just as integrated and XP and Vista aren't substantially less stable. What they are is more prone to attack because the hackers go for where the people are and Mac holds under 5% of the market.

My experience is just exactly the opposite. Most Mac users are also Windows users at their place of work

YMMV. I've encountered and/or worked with thousands of folks and my experience is as I stated it. Mac folks tend to get very lost very fast with PCs, especially once they try to do anything beyond the basics.

Of course, I live in the SF Bay Area and most of the mac folks are left-wingnuts so there isn't much there there to begin with. . . If you have Macs scattered about your house, why are you buying a new one? One of the others could probably do the job.

In this case they couldn't. My wife is a graphic artist and needs both storage and speed. The older machines aren't cutting it anymore.

I really would prefer to avoid buying a new Mac but at least it's a business expense.