(Note that in the commercial, Lauren sets off a powder keg of controversy the moment she says she’s not “cool enough” to own a Mac–me, I want to judge computers, not people.) And the unemotional aspect of my research tries to strip out any bias based on anything but the computers at hand. The specific part is important because asking whether Macs are more expensive than Windows PCs is like asking whether Audis are more expensive than General Motors cars: It’s a meaningless question without context, since the answer is entirely contingent on the models you choose.
I continue to think it’s worth trying to answer the question in a very specific and unemotional way.
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I haven’t returned to this issue since last October, but the moment Microsoft put it at the heart of a major national TV commercial last week, the blogosphere started debating it all over again. Mac question–which I started doing within a few weeks of Technologizer’s launch last summer. I’ve also encountered it every time I’ve tried to do the math on the Windows vs. You can see this passion crop up in some of the comments on Ed Oswald’s two recent posts ( here and here) on Microsoft’s new “Lauren” ad comparing 17-inch Windows laptops to the MacBook Pro. There’s something about comparing the prices of Windows PCs and Macs that makes otherwise cool and collected people–Windows and Mac users alike–become profoundly emotional and partisan, until steam shoots out of thefir ears and their eyeballs turn bright red.
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