eagle63
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I have a couple of thoughts on this matter. Firstly Being in the IT industry for the past 8~ years i'm really baffled by the whole "macs last longer" idea. The company I've worked for over the past 5 years is a split environment with about 20 macs and 40 pcs. The failure rate on the macbook pros has been worse than our pcs. Most aren't lasting 2 years without some form of major repair. I've seen dead logic boards/graphics chips, quite a few kernel panics/OS instability, as well as dead hard drives. The research i've seen on warranty repair rates puts apple at fourth best (three PC vendors ahead of them in "reliability"). I'm not trying to say they are terrible but out of the 15 some odd macbooks we've got 7 have had catastrophic failures within their first two years. So there is my anecdotal evidence . That said my experience has also been that people are buying the cheapest pc laptops they can find on average (think $299 walmart specials) and then hating it because it's total crap. Then going out and blowing 1-3k on a mac and raving about how much better macs are than pcs. It's a bit silly when you think about it.
The reliability thing is tough to prove. The company I work for is an all-mac shop (roughly 500 employees). Our IT folks switched to macs years ago due to reliability problems and (apparently) have some metrics to prove it was the right move. However, I think macs (particularly the laptops) used to be much better in terms of reliability- I think they've slipped in recent years.
I agree on your last assessment though. It's really the reverse argument from PC fans who say, "Mac's are so overpriced, you just pay for the name. I can get a PC laptop with the same specs for half the price." What they forget is that their $500 PC laptop is probably a thick, heavy, plasticky piece of junk with bad battery life, a sub-par screen and a miserable trackpad. The problem with PC laptops is the market is largely dominated by cheap junk. Sony's Vaio line was generally very high quality, but they were also just as expensive as the macbook pro's.