{"id":16980,"date":"2014-01-06T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=16980"},"modified":"2014-01-05T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T21:14:54","slug":"newsletter-issue-736-about-those-overpriced-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2014\/01\/newsletter-issue-736-about-those-overpriced-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #736: About Those Overpriced Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story continues. Macs are expensive and PCs are cheap. If you just want a basic computer to get online, run Word, and handle email, you can do perfectly fine with an entry-level Dell, and I see them for as little as $329.99 at the company&#8217;s online store.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that, they tell you, to the tiny Mac mini at $599. There&#8217;s no possible comparison. Why spend the extra money for a luxury &#8220;niche&#8221; product anyway? After all, despite the problems with Windows 8, the majority of the computing world still prefers Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s the argument, one that I have examined over and over again over the years with essentially the same result. When identically equipped \u2014 and sometimes that&#8217;s a bit of a stretch \u2014 the Mac and the Windows PC are pretty close in price. Sometimes the Mac is cheaper, and sometimes the PC is cheaper. But not by much except at the very high-end.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2014\/01\/newsletter-issue-736\/#macs\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story continues. Macs are expensive and PCs are cheap. If you just want a basic computer to get online, run Word, and handle email, you can do perfectly fine with an entry-level Dell, and I see them for as little as $329.99 at the company&#8217;s online store. 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