Again, you are making a straw-man argument of things I never said and then attacking that while completely ignoring what I did say.
My post you replied to was
here's nothing at all there about laser printers.
As far as displays. During the heyday of Apple's Cinema display line there were plenty of commodity PC monitors at 20% of Apple's price. But Apple monitors were far superior. They were targeted at people doing graphic and video work, they had superior gamut, color fidelity, and richness. They used IPS panels when the whole market was using a very poor version of TN, the viewing angle on those TN panels was so poor, even looking straight on, the edges looked all washed out and the colors were inconstant across the screen as the angle to your eye changed. For people used to commodity monitors at the time, the Apple displays looked magnificent in the store and nobody questioned the 5x markup being worth it. Today cheap monitors are a lot better than they were a decade ago, but there's still a market for high end monitors. Apple just doesn't want to compete in the high end computer hardware business.
As far as computers. That's even easier. Until 2011-2012, Mac hardware was, performance-wise, on par with the best PC hardware at about a 30% apple markup, which was well worth it for the sleek well-designed computer. I looked hard at windows laptops around the time I bought my 2011 MBP. And for the same price I paid for the macs, it was hard to find a PC to match its power. And then the mac had a better keyboard, case build, and display. It was a no-brainer to buy the mac. At the time I remember a PC Mag article saying the best windows laptop on the market was a macbook running windows, even with price factored in. IIRC, the Sandy Bridge CPU in my macbook wasn't even available to PC vendors yet at the time I bought the macbook. Apple had an exclusive window with Intel.
Today the latest Apple laptops just don't compare well to windows. You have the gimped keyboards, poor performance, non-removable storage (which makes data recovery impossible if anything else goes wrong with the logic board), emoji bars, etc, all in a computer that is nearly double what it cost in 2012 for a comparably specced machine. My 2011 MBP is by far the best computer I ever owned. My 2017 is well in the running for the worst. And the only Mac (out of about a dozen) I ever had buyers remorse over. It is also absolutely my last mac unless Apple does a hard 180 (which I'm not holding my breath for), which I find pretty disappointing.
So, please continue to pretend your nonsense about laser printers is not building a straw-man because you've got no legitimate response to any of this. Laser printers....wow.
