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Originally Posted by Lindy
Always something to consider with Macs is that they will serve you longer even if they do cost more up front.  I have a six year old PowerBook and it still does everything I need it to do, (including large, complex Excel spreadsheets) easily docks into my desktop monitor/keyboard setup, has been utterly reliable, (even though I dropped it once) and is probably still worth $400 if I wanted to sell it. What's a five or six year old Dell worth?
And well worth it if you think long term instead of present tense cash flow. |
From a hardware perspective, the two lines of machinery are converging anyway.
You are paying a premium for an apple logo and OS. You'd need to sell it for more to make it even slightly worthwhile from a cash perspective. I don't dislike Macs, but you are taking the fanboi-ism a bit far to try to argue that a Mac is better value.
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Originally Posted by Lindy
If they are already using windows, you're probably right. Always easier to keep on keepin' on. All that software to pirate/move over onto the new machine too.  |
Hmmm - just because people run windows, doesn't make them software pirates. That seems a very long bow to draw.