Mac vs. PC cost analysis revisited


By Scot Finnie, Computerworld
This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center.“A recent switcher to the ‘Cult of the Mac,’ I’ve often wondered why I waited so long,” Sugrue continues. “I am a professional software developer, using Windows and Visual Studio, so I have a lot of Windows pain most days. I wish I could do all my dev work on the Mac. I see that being a major barrier to switching for most of my peers, even though there are great apps like Parallels and Boot Camp that could help. There’s a lot of ignorance about Apple for some reason among us technical types. A programmer at work said yesterday that he hated Apple. I asked whether he’d ever used a Mac. Nope.”
He’d probably hate chocolate if he hadn’t tried it, too."

"There’s no question about it. My Mac vs. PC cost analysis column for Computerworld, which focused on the relative costs of Mac and Windows hardware, struck a chord. I was praised and lambasted around the Internet for it when it appeared in June.
It seemed to me that people who criticized this story missed the key points I was trying to get across:"
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Macworld: News: Mac vs. PC cost analysis revisited

Posted: Sat - August 18, 2007 at 07:42 PM          

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