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Originally Posted by Cory
You like Macs. That's great. But just because you don't like PC's doesn't mean that they're going to fall apart 6 months after you buy one.
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However, it is a fact that Macs retain value longer. Look around eBay at old
Powerbooks and
G5 towers and compare their selling prices to PCs of comparable age/original price. For some reason, people are willing to pay more money for old Mac products than PCs. It probably has to do with the fact that I can cobble together a PIII PC with parts I find lying around a dump with little challenge, while Macs are not reproducible in the same way.
If build quality is what you are after,
Thinkpads are pretty much the standard for business-class-ruggedness on the PC laptop side. If you look on eBay, you will notice that old Thinkpads still fetch a fair amount of coin, and this is because they are built well and do not break easily.
It's not just a fanboy thing. PCs can last a long time too, but don't discount a Mac's long term value.