Worked at Microsoft for better than a decade.) When he first switched to Mac he couldn't figure out how to get his modem to work - and he was a professional softwareĮngineer/designer. One of my brothers was a die-hard Windows user for years. One of the earlier writers makes a very good point about adapting to a different system. (If you need evidence, let me know and I'll share the URL for the standards list.)Īlso, one can run Windows natively on the Intel processors in new Macs. At the moment our Apple systems a bit less expensive, though I'm sure that the opposite will again be the case before long, and so it Over time, one or the other manufacturer will price their system a bit higher or lower than the other, but the differences are very We are a dual-platform institution and we specĬomparable systems in a variety of categories, with Dell and Apple as our primary vendors.

I've been a member of the committee that determines hardware/software standards at my college for over a decade. Mac OS hardware does not cost more than Windows hardware - if you are comparing Apple prices to prices from major Windows computer manufacturers (Dell, HP) of Bryan wrote: '.isn't the point that you overpaid for your hardware so that you can use the Mac OS? Otherwise, what's the point?'