“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
The total cost of ownership of Apple products has been consistently shown to be lower than their competitions' products when resale value is calculated in. I can assure you we have found that to be true for the Macs we use in my office. IBM is now discovering it to be true in even daily use as the are converting to Macs and other Apple products company wide at the rate of 2200 per week. Since doing so, they have discovered they are saving 45% on their IT department help desk calls as Apple Macs require far less maintenance and support than do the Windows PCs they replaced.
That just might hold true for those who buy laptops on the cheap. Those that buy $1,000 laptops might get two years out of them. That's $500 per year. The Macbook Pro I got six years ago for $2,200 is still going strong today. That's well under $400 a year and after six years, it still blows today's $1,000 "cheapies" out of the water.