[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve made my living using Macs for the past twenty-plus years. The useful life of a Mac is considerably longer than a PC. The service calls, the downtime, all of it contribute to productivity.

As far as price, configure a comparable PC, at retail, feature for feature, and tell me they’re considerably less. They’re not.

[aft_lizard]

Considerably longer? I don’t know about that. If you are talking the cheapie PC’s, then yeah, but for the mid-range and up they have as long a lifetime as Mac does, depending on what you do with it. That would go for Mac’s as well. If you are a graphics designer or some other power user then you effective lifetime for your PC is going to pretty short compared to other users as you will always want to have the best available components to power the software that will eat up every resource you can throw at it. However if you are the average user who does nothing more than websurfing and the occasional word document then the lifetime of your pc is as long as your hardware will ast, but too often consumers don’t see it that way.

[JSteff]

“As far as price, configure a comparable PC, at retail, feature for feature, and tell me they’re considerably less. They’re not.”

Oh, so you are the lone defender on the thread. :-)

I build all my own PC’s. Loaded rarely cost over $400 or $500 MAX. Most of the software is FREE because everyone writes for XP.

Can you say the same? Do you drive a Prius too? Have a great weekend.

[Sudetenland]

They're considerably less. I've never had a service call and feature for feature Apples are outrageously expensive.

Apples are a cult. They are no better than you average PC and cost three times as much.