[dohboy]

You need to re-imagine.

I'm used to paying $0 for the OS X stuff needed to do development. This includes the Enterprise Professional Plus Home edition of both OS X and Xcode. In the lifetime of my Mac I have upgraded the OS 2 times and soon 3 for $0. So $307 is a bit significant for Windows 10 Pro (need BitLocker = Home is no go).

If you could have done the same on your Windows platform then please give me your Windows stuff contact person as he is clearly much cheaper than the ones I usually deal with.

But just for being in the Apple is ripping you off mode I did pay a bit more for the initial purchase of the hardware (around $205 more in todays prices than a comparable Dell XPS 13).

My day job is doing software management on the Windows platform so I'm fully aware of the licensing cost here. Including the price of operating a Windows developer above Visual Studio community level with their VS Pro/Enterprise editions, MSDN subscriptions, Team Foundation servers, and $2,500 HP workstation laptops (initial consumer price for lowest configuration). Seeing these prices almost causes a heart attack each time...

[geofft]

If you run it in a VM on your Mac, you can take advantage of any host-level full-disk encryption and avoid needing Bitlocker. (Of course, you probably want to pay the $50 or so for VMware Fusion, if you're going that approach.)

[dohboy]

Yes, hadn't thought of that actually.

But it was mostly an example. I already have all the Windows versions I want available through work.

[chadzawistowski]

Where are you getting the $307 figure for Windows 10 Pro? The full cost of a brand-new Win10 Pro license is $199 according to Microsoft's website.

[dohboy]

In the Microsoft store for my country the price is 2099 DKK equal to 307.41 USD.

Yes everything is expensive here... :/