This is in contrast with Microsoft.
Most people are buying stuff from them because they ‘have’ to.
Microsoft is just sitting there, waiting to be replaced with something else. Vista shined the light on Microsoft’s shortcomings. They released Win7, which was an updated version of Vista that didn’t suck as bad, but with no real value added. Most all users don’t miss anything just sticking with XP with regard to functionality, and you don’t need 8GB of RAM for it to run well.....
Wait, are you trying to say that you don't think $100 is a fair price to replace the totally non-functional OS with one that can "snap" the windows to the margins? :)
One of my coworkers commented on me paying the MacTax, by spending more for a Mac than my old Windows laptop. My "old" windows laptop was a middle of the road HP, $800, a dual processor, about 6+ lbs, 2 hour battery, 2 1/2 years old. It came with Vista which after the first couple months took so long to boot up that I would avoid shutting it down. Even at its best it would take several minutes to get to the point where you could actually do something on it. I finally replaced Vista with 7, not because I thought 7 would be awesome, but because Vista was such a flying piece of excrement. 7 was much more stable, but it still ran slow, and took forever to boot up.
My "MacTax" was an extra $500 for a $1300 MacBook Air. It is a two pound, seven hour battery, aluminum chassis, awesome machine that boots in 14 seconds. That isn't 14 seconds to see the desktop and then stare at is for a couple minutes while it becomes useable. That is 14 seconds from cold iron, push the on button, ready to work. Oh, it also doesn't dump the relationship with the wifi printer every time I shut the thing off.