I didn't look at the Mac Mini, so the ones I looked at were 4x expensive, in part because I had to buy the screen.
I wonder what you drive and if its not a top line Mercedes if you think its a piece of crap?
The responses I've gotten from Mac owners concerning the crux of the article ,i.e. Macs are more expensive, has pretty much reinforced the paradigm that Mac owners are first and foremost elitist want-a-be's.
Its the crystal glass vs. the 64 oz. plastic cup analogy. Which one is of higher quality? That depends, if you are going to the beach, its the 64 oz. plastic cup to most people.
You can walk around the beach with your crystal glass and tell the folks with plastic cups that they are stupid and are drinking from inferior pieces of crap, but all it is going to do is reinforce their opinion of you.
What you said “Macs are horribly expensive. When I last looked to purchase, the cheapest Mac was about four times the price of the cheapest PC.”
So you looked only at high end Macs compared to lowest end PC’s and you found discrepancy. Off of that you say Macs are horrible expensive.
My last car a dodge neon was a piece of crap but it got me where I was going. There is nothing wrong with owning a crap car (or a crap computer) but as a neon owner (12K) I would not go to a mustang owner of even a prius owner and tell them my car is just as good as theirs and they over paid.
The responses from windows usres on threads like this are basically trying to justify their piece of crap by saying all MAC’s are over prices. our post ‘macs are 4* more’ is a prime example.
Personally I prefer Linux to Mac’s and Wintel boxes but every system has their place and Mac’s for what they deliver are price competitive with PC’s as has been shown time and time again. The more aspects of owning a computer you consider the more things even out.
My Mother in her mid sixties owns a MAC, not to be elitist but because when and if something happens she cant figure out she can hit the mac store within a day. The typical answer from someone in denile of their piece of crap is ‘you’re an elitist’