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Re: ...but my wife does.

So why aren't you buying her the equivalent Dell workstation at $3900 since obviously the $3000 Mac must be 50% more expensive as you claimed.

This is a real world situation, Filo... and the Mac is less expensive.

So why aren't you buying her the equivalent Dell workstation at $3900 since obviously the $3000 Mac must be 50% more expensive as you claimed.

Because she doesn't need any of the workstation features on either product. She could (and should be able to) get by with the dual core desktop we already have (about $1K out the door) but instead "needs" the nearest Mac which happens to cost $3K+ out the door.

The low-end crap-Macs won't work and the Mac laptops don't have the storage or expansion capabilities.

The PC has just about the same speed and storage as the Mac Pro we'll be getting (unless I talk her into waiting for the next gen machines.)

Oh, sorry Filo, you said It was 2 to 3 times more expensive... Not 50%...

I said both, but in different contexts. Perhaps you should learn to read instead of misrepresenting what others say?

Her new 3K Mac won't give her any more than her 1K PC except for the fact that she's a Mac person and can't get her stuff done on the PC. It's not that it's not possible - the PC has all the same software - it's that she, being a Mac person, can't do it.

The PC costs 1/3 of the Mac for comparable usefulness.

An apples to apples comparison of features would yield a PC price probably somewhere in the 2K to 2.5K range for a well built system with all of the same features but probably better video and more storage and RAM. It wouldn't be a Dell, but it would be to the same specs as your cited workstation.