Yahoo! News – Mac vs. PC: The Truth About TCO
“Clearly, the price tags for PCs are lower — at least at the low end,” says Macworld (news – web sites) editor-in-chief Jason Snell.
“However, we recently tested the speed of high-end Macs and PCs, and they’re comparable — for comparable prices — in many areas. So, it’s probably most realistic to say that while the cheapest PCs cost less than the cheapest Macs, the cheapest Macs are probably comparable with PCs that cost a similar amount,” he told NewsFactor.
“In other words, as usual, you get what you pay for.”
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The question about Mac vs. PC TCO may be answerable, said Jupiter analyst Michael Gartenberg. “But the question is, is it relevant?”
Differences in cost of ownership are justified — or not — by how suitable a given platform is to a task, Gartenberg maintains. “Based on suitability for task, the numbers for both platforms are going to be roughly the same over a five-year period,” he told NewsFactor.
So if it doesn’t make a difference to the bottomline and the two platforms are functionally equivalent, where’s the argument *against* a heterogenous environment? I’ve always been told competition is good for business . . . . do the business who say “you can use any OS you like, as long as its Windows” not get that?