The hardware markups are definitely real.
How to build a $6000+ Mac Pro hardware equivalent for $2300 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=942
On Jan 16, 2008 8:40 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Mike Beggs <M.Beggs at econ.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> > to ditch Windows. But I've never seen Macs as a
> > better option because of
> > the expense and the fact that you're tied to
> > proprietary hardware as
> > well as software. Linux on a PC is in my opinion the
>
> [WS:] THat is my impression too - Mac seems to me an
> overpriced gadget owing his reptation mainly too its
> maketing of "coolness" rather than technology, which I
> understand is on a par with a PC if not inferior.
>
> So as I see the choice is not between technologies but
> between appearances and perceptions - a marketing
> gimmick vs a monopolist. Pick your poison.
>
> I stay with the PC mainly for economic reasons - PCs
> are way cheaper than Macs for comparable technologies
> (or perchaps use-value created by these technologies),
> and I can get free software from work.
>
> As to the alternative OS (linux etc.) I hear it is
> good for computer geeks who are more excited about the
> enrails of heir machines than actually using these
> machines to the real-wold tasks. In other words, high
> transaction costs for those who are not computer savvy
> enough to tweak their own operating systems
> proficiently (that includes me).
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
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