Iria

With Apple's last Macworld keynote speech just hours away, Microsoft is again talking up the idea of an "Apple tax" that people pay when they opt for a Mac over a Windows PC.
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Source: Beyond Binary

ET3D

Yeah, really smart doing a comparison just before Macworld. The Mac specs will shortly change.

IvanV

Ah well, propaganda, what can you expect? At least it's based on the real data (and yeah, the Apple's part of it is likely to change soon, but so is the data for HP and Dell, this is the PC industry, after all).

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Tipstaff

How do you compare a company like Dell, whose R&D is almost nothing, licenses their operating systems en mass from Microsoft no less, makes money in huge multi-year corporate leasing's of hardware and service, doesn't make their own hardware, and has companies paying them to put their trial ware onto the computers they sell (including Microsoft), to someone like Apple who, while they don't make their products (instead getting companies like Asus or Foxconn to do the work), spends millions in R&D for their own hardware, their own software, AND their own operating system? Apple tax? Try R&D recovery, brand name worth, and profit.

Here's something to consider: If people are buying the more expensive product, consistently, it makes you wonder why, doesn't it? Take that comparative. The fact that Dells and HPs computers in that comparative are cheaper, is it because they are actually cheaper, or is it that both have priced their products to sway people into buying them because they are losing customers to Apple? If the latter is true, is it because these consumers don't like the PC, or could it be because they don't like Windows? More importantly, could it be because they don't like or trust Microsoft?

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