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Macs are really cheaper than PCs, resale value higher
7Nov2007 Filed under: Gadgets, Moneysavers, Shopping, Timesavers Author: Esme VosFarhad Manjoo, Salon’s tech columnist, did quite a bit of research and showed that Macs are indeed cheaper than PCs. Moreover, their eBay resale value is higher:
Even for computers, brand matters. This week I compared prices of several machines from Dell, Gateway and other PC vendors against Apple’s lineup of Macs. In most cases comparable Macs sold for within $100 more than the PCs. But the Apples had something extra: that logo, the design, the history . . .
I switched to the Mac in 2002 and I don’t understand why people still use Windows PCs.
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November 25th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Back in the early 90’s I was one of the first people in Orlando Florida to get a Mac Quadra 840AV. It was the fastest and most sophisticated PC you could buy at the time–a whopping $3,400. It was the last of the 68K series for Apple, a 68040. I really loved that machine and a few years later when the PPC machines came out, I said that I would not buy a PPC until it could run classic applications at the speed of my Quadra. It took eight years for Apple to field a machine that fast, so I bought it (8550). I put my old Quadra up on Ebay and sold it for $200+shipping! Do that with any 8 year old PC!