Of course the punchline on whose cheaper is that if you actually want to save money don’t go to Dell or Mac or any of the other name brands, because they ALL make you pay for their spiffy logo. Use the Dell site to spec it out then go to your local nerd shop and have THEM do it (sure you could do it yourself, but I do that at work, don’t want to at home). Saved me 600 bucks.
Good point and it points out the key difference in the two.
You can’t really build your own Mac, unless you want an OS hack, which I wouldn’t recommend for the average user.
The PC is more like hot-rodding. You can build your own, mix and match, soup it up here, down here, add this, tweak that, etc.
If this is your desire or your area of expertise, or you enjoy this, then PCs have that advantage - plus as you mention you can save money on the box.
Macs have the advantage for folks who don’t like working on “cars” and want to use the computer with the minimal amount of time spent working on the computer itself.
thanks for your reply..
Dell builds obsolescence into every model it sells. Cheap power supplies and loaded memory slots are just the beginning. I wish i had a dime for every Dell user who wanted to upgrade to a “gaming video card” and found out they needed a new power supply.
Luckily parts are cheap these days.