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Originally Posted by vdbucks
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.
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How long would you be running one then ?
We still have some 24" Core 2 Duo iMac's in the office which we bought in 2006, we might get another year or so out of them. That's 7 or 8 years. They run OS X pretty well, a couple even do video tasks. No need to replace them.
My old Powerbook, which I got 6 years out of, is still running with someone else, it's only running Leopard so might be retired this year. It's an almost 9 year old machine is great condition. The only reason that will be retired is because it wont run Lion (G4 Processor as opposed to Intel in the current Macs).
I still think when you factor in the high cost of Windows and the high cost of support in the business world, you're not that far behind in cost buying a Mac over a Windows PC.