If the Mac wasnt so pricey more people would buy them. You can get a laptop for half the price and that is the determining factor for many people.
I wrote my thesis on a Mac, at the time it was the only computing platform that offered WYSIWYG equation editing. But when I went into industry there was not a Mac to be found. Fast forward 20 years and I look around the engineering building here ... and I still see no Macs.
I maintain it is not because they are not good machines, they clearly are ... they are priced 2x what they should be.
True, but the one thing you leave out is, the resale value of Macs. You can probably recoup at least 50% of the purchase price on resale even two or three years later, which of course you can apply to purchasing the latest and greatest model.
There's also the propretary hardware platform. No company in their right mind builds a mission critical infrastructure on a single source hardware platform.
You know, I’ve been a PC guy since the early 80’s, a couple of months ago I got a Mac Mini to replace a dead home built Linux box. Not that I have anything against Linux mind you, I still run it on my Lenovo Laptop; I just wanted a hardware/software combo that “just works”.
Cliche I know, but it’s true.
I had purchased the mini with the intention of connecting my old monitor, keyboard and other peripherals to it, but.. Things just kind of snowballed. Since I had just moved, and the monitor I had been using was a small Samsung LCD That was still in a box - somewhere, I thougt i might go for one of those new Mac LED displays. Pricey to be sure. Then I looked at an iMac, for a little bit more, i could get a 21” LED HD monitor, with the computer built in.
It just arrived today, it’s currently syncing my data from the mini, that I’ve decided to keep hooked up to the Sony 52” HD; beautiful machine. Yea, it cost more, but it works. And after some 30 years of futsing around with PC’s and Windows - I deserve a break today.
Another cliche I know.