bomberboysk
Active Member
You are confusing hardware and OS, which are two separate entities. You can say PC versus Mac or OS X versus Windows. We are comparing OSes to OSes, not hardware to hardware.
What is the difference between home vista and business vista? the ability to connect to a domain and receive group policy, and what is the price difference?
What is the cost of any other pay for OS? What do you get when you buy those OSes? Oh yeah you get everything.
It is a marketing scheme.
Who cares? You can build a computer with vista ultimate(as pricey as it may be), and for the price of components still build a superior system to anything that costs similar price with apple. For example, what it costs for a 24" totally decked out imac, you could have an i7 rig running windows or linux. Apple is too closed for me to take it seriously, as i cannot even put it on my rig legally. Maybe when apple takes their head out of the sand and realizes it would be profitable for them to license the os for use on pc's and not much macs, then osx would be a viable option for many users. But getting back on subject.... windows 7 release candidate should be out soon for public download from microsoft!