your comparison is good but only show one small sliver of the market place if you go to cheaper desktop or more expensive ones you will find that PC are alot better price wise
It is still not a valid comparison then, and goes to the overall cost of ownership to you. Since, to you some features may not matter, or you may be not aware of the differences, but that doesn't mean a Mac is over priced.
Like I said, people keep posting cheap (sub $500) 27" displays and try to compare it. Unless you work on an IPS screen all day like I have on my new iMac recently you would be ignorant to the differences. Especially if you are going back and forth.
I literally have two iMacs I am working on right now. The new iMac is running an instaDMG compile so I am using it to browse the web while the new master image is compiling and the second imac is compiling packages for me in Casper Admin, so both are being utilized by semi intensive CPU tasks and I am working back and forth between them both. Every single time I switch back to the LED screen I immediately miss the IPS screen. Is this a deal breaker for me if I were to spend my own money (ie these were not machines my work bought me) then maybe I'd consider building a PC over the iMac, but I do need the Macs for work. I never knew the different off paper until recently when I snagged up a new iMac from our storage facility when they got dropped off a few months ago. I am just now hooking it up and using it, it sat on a bench and was a test machine for imaging for several months. Now that the imaging testing is done I have converted it to a second work station and am now using it with work.
If you have no desire to learn or care how a computer works and just want to use it, and you prefer windows over Mac or vice versa your mind is already made up. However, if you want to compare the two at price versus feature versus spec to spec and total cost of ownership then you need to take it all into account before making a judgment on what is over priced and what is not over priced. This will also tell you if a Mac is for you or not. Most people on this forum try to argue different with me, and I have been professionally using and support macs for 11 years almost now, and PCs and Windows since the early 90s (though I wasn't doing it professionally in the early 90s) and they use the most ridiculous claims with no facts.
It is a lot like democrats versus republicans, people like to leave out facts and argue opinion more than anything, and I am simply trying to use facts to compare the two.
