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Sigh. You have a possible point that I figured you'd bring up. But most of Apples computers are built to have all sorts of extra crap that may or may not be needed. For example, I'm sure the tiny Apple laptops have much more horsepower than the others of their size, hence the better rating and $600 price difference. At the same time, though, if the speed of the memory and other values are so superior for Apple computers, why don't they function as well when compared to other products that are cheaper? Just because they have more memory, if they don't test out better than other computers, what's the purpose? They might have more stuff built in, but most users don't need everything included in an Apple product. Customizable options are far superior. So sure, it's certainly possible that if you put every component from an Apple into a Dell, the price would be similar, but most reasonable people wouldn't do that because it makes no sense to do so. Thus, Apple tells people the price point would be the same and you go buy it because of all the nice frills that you absolutely don't need.
So who cares if the cost *would* be the same when the value most people are getting is much lower?
Well obviously. They all have faults. I think Apple's is a bit safer between a combination of how its setup and the fact that there are fewer users (at least in the past) so fewer viruses were made. That is, of course, until we found out that you could essentially take control of the computers with a nothing virus.
