[citation][nom]zelannii[/nom]OK, first, you better cite a source. Then, cite a source showing PC users have a better level of technology education.Also, customers don;t get to see the box, except from a distance, until; they make a purchase decision. All the technical detail and pricing is displayed on the card in front of the displayed machine, and is exactly identical in content for both PCs and Macs. What's it issue is that little card only sais Processor speed (not type/model), RAM size (not speed), HDD size (and typically not speed), Optical drive type, and wireless card type. It lacks inclusions about backlit keyboard, 7 hour battery, graphics adapter (sometimes included), web cam, bluetooth, aluminum construction, firewire, and other hardware features nearly every mac has that few PCs in the same processor and size class come equipped with. It;s simply not a fair comparrison of specs.Go to Apple.com, pick almost any model, then go to Dell and try to configure a machine to match the specs, same or better on all counts (i'll even let you exclude the battery life, SD reader, and backlit keyboard, and i'll even let the Dell weigh up to 2 lbs more)... Good luck. Get a gaming notebook from dell under $1500, a video editing notebook under $1000, a 24" anything, an 8core Xeon for even CLOSE to the PowerMac's price and features, a battery lasting more than 3 hours that's not in a netbook that offers a GPU and and even half the value adds of the macbook pro, they simply don't have it.Yea, if you're looking for a generic POS to do little more than surf the web, email, and blog, absolutely there are cheaper machines out there, I'm not contesting that. That's not Apple's market, and they really could care less. Apple is only interested in selling machines to poeple who want to do something with media, like manage tens of thousands of pictures, edit video, or run higher end software. Look at their adds, short of the whole "OS X doesn't crash" thing, it's all about doing things el-cheapo PCs can't do at all, or do so aggrivatingly slowly.[/citation]
First that's cuz dell sucks, second i have configured a laptop at hp that cost 1100 dollars and it was sick, good battery, like 3 and half hours, 2.5 ghz C2D, 4 gig of RAM, Vista 64 bit, With Nvidia G20M graphics with like 1 gig of VRAM, configure a similar MAC and tell me how much it will cost, even if they have those options it will be around 3800, for which price you get a laptop with a quad core processor at around 2.8 ghz and like a 260GT with blu ray. But if you get from the right place you could get an i7 laptop for 400 more, not that i would recommend an i7 on a laptop.
Sure the battery life will be depleted but that is cause ur are playing games on or doing tons of photography on it. in which case you won't be doing it in a public space, Playing Crysis in a restaurant? i don't think so