[somebehemoth]

> I don't see how anyone that can afford comparable PCs or UltraBooks would be priced out of Apple products.

And if they can’t afford comparable PC’s, then Macs are not affordable. There are many affordable non-mac options.

[vehemenz]

The claim here is that people are priced out of Macs, not that they aren't more expensive. If a Mac is $2100 instead of $700, that's only a few hundred dollars more per year, or $20-30 a month.

In the US, $20 or $30 is negligible to the frivolous expenses of the average household budget. In laptop-buying households, even more so. Let's not confuse misperception of value to affordability.

[somebehemoth]

People literally are priced out of macs. Nothing you say changes that fact.

> About the final point—are Macs really "high cost"?

There are zero low cost macs, while other low cost computers are abundant.

> If a Mac is $2100 instead of $700, that's only a few hundred dollars more per year, or $20-30 a month.

Your concept of what “average people” can afford is very convenient for your argument because you made it up. To most people a product that is $1400 more expensive is considered much, much more expensive. The fact that you have to invent a payment plan to support your argument says a lot.

I like macs, they are nice. But they are high priced and expensive. They can be both worth the extra money while also being too high priced for a huge number of average people.

[Sporktacular]

And then there are used options for both PC and Mac, if they're really keen.

[diffeomorphism]

Not really. Just have a look at ebay: Macbooks from 2015 are still expensive.

Partially because Apple's naming is useless, e.g. would you like to buy a macbook air or a macbook air or a macbook air? All very different machines from different years.

[vmception]

please, the market is efficient enough to know to ask for year and model, even which season of that year, for macbooks.