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Originally Posted by AdultKing
After just a couple of Windows upgrades you'd be ahead money wise.
Windows 7 Ultimate is $499 here. Apple OS X is $30.
I got 6 years out of my Powerbook which is now being used by someone else and still runs OS X fine.
I've had 3 years years out of my secondary Macbook Pro and it also still runs fine.
Most people I know running PC notebooks tend to need to upgrade every 2 years or so.
So over the lifetime of the machine I might spend a couple of hundred more dollars than a Windows PC user. For fucks sake I can spend more than that cost difference on a trip to the pub.
I'll wont lose sleep over spending a few dollars more.
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Again with that comparison... And yet you're failing to realize that it's not like Micro$oft gives you a new OS every 6 months or every year. After XP came the joke called Vista. Vista was pretty much the Windows ME of 7. After Vista came 7.
XP was released in 2001
Vista was released in 2007
7 was released in 2009
Not many people, especially those like us in the business world, would be running the same hardware box for 8+ years. So your price comparison is moot.
And here's another simple fact for you. The only - and I mean only - reason that Apple refuses to open OS X up to the 'PC' world is because people would realize just how much money they are wasting on Mac hardware. The drivers are pretty much all there - which is the most important thing. And these days, you don't even need to use hacked kernels anymore on most intel machines capable of running Lion. There is actually very little that would need to be done for Apple to officially release to the intel PC crowd - AMD is another story and isn't covered in this debate for obvious reasons - and yet they refuse to. And it's very easy to see why.
Not that I blame them or anything, I mean, how could they in their right mind justify charging the insane prices they do for hardware if it becomes widely known public knowledge that their hardware is the same as the hardware I have in my pc?