Apple, in my opinion, has one HUGE disadvantage over PC’s:
Price
I visited the Apple Store the other day, as I’m in the market for a new laptop.
A good-sized Apple Notebook costs $2,499.
I can buy three decent PC laptops for that.
Install Linux... you'll save money and your laptops will perform better.
Can’t argue with that, you are 100% correct. Apple is expensive compared against the PC. Some would argue that you pay more for a quality product, but the fact is that the Quality in Apple products is not superior to that of the PC products - aside from the OS X software polish. That is why there is such an active ‘Hackintosh’ market.
People are buying a $300 netbook and installing OS X on it. All the polish of of the Apple product, at a fraction of the cost.
My ONLY beef with OS X is the lack of applications; but with Boot Camp, I can have polish for personal things, and brute functionality for work.
2,499 that is typical of mac crap.