You did as Mac has lower tco than windows. It may be unacceptable to you but since Mac sales are up it seems it acceptable to the customers.
this is something I actually question, I started moving a bunch of my video editing production to PC workstations ( desktop and laptop ) beginning in late 2011. my TCO over 5 years has been FAR lower in a 5 year span and not in Apples favor.
Since Tax season is over and in my line of work I track that kind of thing I can give you some examples.
I purchased a 2011 Elitebook 8740W workstation laptop, total cost plus upgrades since then $5211.63. I have had a total of 114 hours downtime ( machine not accessible to be used ) my repair costs have been $0.00 as HP, Dell and Lenovo offer 5 years of NBD onsite support with accidental warranty, 17 hours of my downtime was me shattering a very expensive Dreamcolor 2 screen, most of the rest was downtime for upgrades and updates.
now not a single one of my 15" rMBPs since 2011 has made less than 2 trips into the Apple store ( including 4 2016's I took back and currently have none of in use, and my 5 2015's ). now at roughly $4K a pop plus now an average of 5 trips per unit ( I have had a total of 16 units as I rotate equipment fast normally ) that is 3 hours of drive time plus fuel etc which basically equates an entire lost production day. ( 293kms @ .50 + 8 hours @ my billing time for projects ) x 5 = SUBSTANCIALLY more than that PC workstation for the extra $1200, which is also far more productive .... for gods sake its 6 years old now and still on my production kit.
I can go on and on and DONT get me started on my Mac Pro's blowing GPU's etc and being 1/4 as productive as my big boys.
In my line of work the TCO for a good 5 year workstation that can be upgraded is roughly 1/3 that of my Apple kit at this point in time. I can ask jjjoseph here on MR who handles gear in a major VFX house and I believe he said his was about 25%
as for the productivity side .... my 2011 laptop up there kicks my 2013 nMP's ass around in VFX, a lot of my render and 3D work. on average I would say I can now bang out a better product in about half the time.
and YES I am one of those overly vocal ones about the lack of pro support on the MP's etc.
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