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..
Of course if you’re putting Windows on it don’t be too much of a hot-rodder. I learned this over the years, the more you tweak with Windows the less stable it gets. When I hot-rodded my Windows scrubs and re-installs were at best a quarterly event, when I finally realized that wasn’t very fun and kept my tweaking to low impact UI type stuff and maybe the occasional video or RAM upgrade scrubs and re-installs became basically a thing of the past.
PCs themselves can definitely be like your cousin’s Camaro, but Windows is a towncar OS. Tweak lots on your initial purchase, and when the OS goes on stop screwing with it. That is the path to being a happy Windows user. If constant tweaking is in your blood learn ‘Nix.