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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.

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

I know this thread is a bit old, and that you had back-and-forth several time with different folks, but I decided to come back and comment anyway.

As a new person to the mac world, it does just seem odd that someone would sell and old pc. But it happens in the mac world. And for real money. Old PCs are worth about salvage value. Macs on ebay go for real money. I couldn't believe it myself, but it is true. Way weird...