[janardanyri]

All of the costs cited are rounding errors in comparison to the scarcity of good developers' time, especially developers capable of delivering product across iPhone / Android / web.

Developing on "an old clunky win laptop" in particular is far from zero cost.

[fleitz]

I always love how much developers think they can save skimping on hardware. $700 is a day worth of downtime. My Macbook Air is easily worth $4000 to me now because it broke 3 times and they turned it around each time in under 24 hours. When my windows laptop breaks im with out it for 2 weeks requiring me to purchase another one.

[cinbun8]

Who said anything about skimping on hardware ? My point was that you don't get the same horse power for price ratio on an apple laptop that you get from a Windows laptop. As for support it depends on your geographical location. You were able to get your mac air replaced thrice within 24 hours each time and I get similar support for my Windows laptops. It took me 4 days just to get a human being to respond to a problem I had with apple up-to-date support.

Developer time is more valuable than hardware costs hands down. The horse power that you can back in return for that hardware cost varies between apple and windows.