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It's because most PCs people use are bottom of the barrel cheap. If you compare similarly priced PCs to Macs with similar business class builds (keyboards for l
by FollowSteph3 10y ago
It's because most PCs people use are bottom of the barrel cheap. If you compare similarly priced PCs to Macs with similar business class builds (keyboards for laptops, etc) I highly suspect everything will balance out, at the very least be minimal.
- greedo 10y agoIf you look at the full reports, it's readily apparent that IBM isn't comparing an expensive Mac to an el-cheapo PC.
- raesene6 10y agoBut they could well be comparing a new BYOD MacOS environment to a old corporate legacy windows setup, which isn't really comparing the performance of the OS so much as comparing BYOD with old-school centrally managed windows domains.
- DINKDINK 10y agoIncreasing the costs of a PC would make the comparative cost worst. The article claims equivalently spec'd systems >Previn says that while a Mac initially costs anywhere from $117 to $454 more than a similarly configured Windows PC,
- bdcravens 10y agoI believe this comparison isn't public at large, but large IT use case.