Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I did that a while back. It wasn't very favourable.
> 
>> (In fairness, the Mac is more expensive by a smaller margin than I 
>> expected.)
> 
>   Well, other people seem to disagree with that. One example:
> 
>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=macintosh_os&articleId=9023959&taxonomyId=123&intsrc=kc_feat
> 
>   MacBook pro: $2799.
>   Dell laptop with equivalent specs: $3459.
>   A slightly less powerful Vaio laptop: $3150.
> 
>   iMac desktop computer (20-inch LCD): $1500.
>   A comparable Vaio desktop computer (19-inch LCD): $1800.

Ah yes, Dell. The most over-priced PC supplier known to man. Surely even 
Rolls Royce are cheaper than Dell. ;-)

A while back I did sit down and churn through the numbers, and from the 
suppliers I could find, equivilent-spec PCs always came out cheaper. I'm 
pretty sure that my post has expired from this newserver now; maybe if I 
have the muse I'll redo that research sometime and post it to my blog...

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/

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