[Dr. Sivana]

Apple stuff back then didn’t last long, but cost 10x what a comparable PC cost at the time for the same friggin thing.

An anecdote proves nothing. You said 1980s, and your example is from 1997. System 7 was better for multi-tasking than DOS and Windows 3.1. My example of desktop publishing in the mid-80s stands.

Comparable Video-editing rigs were NOT 1/10th the price of a Mac setup. For one thing, by 1997, a lot of the most expensive equipment would be peripherals (e.g. large monitor that can be calibrated properly), Postscript color laser, professional software, etc. The big boys were NOT using PCs in '97 for video editing. The Macs were cheaper and easier to maintain than Sun or SGI workstations.