No, because it's not about the initial purchase price. It's about having your stuff crammed into a piece of hardware, and for most people being dependent on tha

No, because it's not about the initial purchase price. It's about having your stuff crammed into a piece of hardware, and for most people being dependent on that stuff being readily accessible. That's why the "it just works" attitude is very powerful amongst the almost entire population for whom replacing hardware is a really huge deal, because they a) have to be without their stuff for the time it takes for the computer repair guy to fix it, and b) because they're scared pantless that their stuff will have been destroyed. If you're not in the know, broken computer _might_ mean loss of data. That thought means loss of sleep.