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>From: Dave Dybas <dd92251 at aol.com>
>
>And so it can be said of Mr. Job's (R.I.P.) as well...ever price an Macbook?

It truly annoys me when people complain about the prices of Apple  
computers.  They really are not more expensive than a Windoz PC with  
the same quality build.

Take the specifications of a Macbook Pro, then find a Windoz PC with  
the same screen resolution, graphics card resolution and speed, same  
processors and cache, same hard drive capacity and speed, same RAM and  
speed, same buss speeds, same optical drive and so on.  Heck, totally  
ignore the amazing physical design factors like the thin form factors  
and aluminum instead of plastic cases.  Now, how differently are they  
priced?

Then, take into account your time fighting malware, and just  
maintaining the machine.  I had to be talked into it, but now I spend  
no time with malware issues whatsoever.  I spend only minutes a week  
doing software updates on our five machines.  Life is good.  I am so  
happy my friend twisted my arm.

I also have a Linux machine which just runs and runs without any adult  
supervision.  My PBX runs on it so I would be very unhappy if it went  
down.  I do have a minor complaint with it.  When I want to make a  
change, like add an extension, I must plug a laptop into the machine.   
I cannot make moves and changes on the network, I must plug into the  
machine, even though the phones operate on the local network, though  
normally only on my PoE switch.  The phones will run on my other  
switches, but they then need wall warts to power the Cisco phones.

Back to the topic, Macs are not really more expensive when you take  
the actual hardware used into consideration.

--chip