Of course you have to remember this mostly applies to the portable line. It’s true though that basically when it comes to laptops, ALL brands are expensive to begin with (be it Apple or PC manufacturers). So the Apple products shine through in terms of value.
But in the desktop realm, they’re still behind in terms of giving pricing options to the common folk. Especially in the 3rd world countries, their idea of “expensive” starts at about 400USD. If that were the case, the ONLY “desktop” they could consider getting, with a bit more pencil pushing, would be a Mac Mini, which of course could easily be beaten by a PC desktop for the same (or even cheaper) price. And if you look hard enough, you can even get that WITH monitor, keyboard and mouse. But that comparison would be unfair to the mini since it’s really a high-end laptop (in terms of component potential) in a mini-desktop case :)
Take the REAL apple desktops and compare them to what you could build in the PC end, and you have no contest in terms of bang for buck. That is of course if you don’t mind having a considerably “uglier” looking machine ;)

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