Yeah OS X is great but why is Apple picking on Microsoft 991

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Apple still has to pay for the development of OS X, and builds that cost into the price of the machines. That's probably more expensive per unit than paying the Microsoft Tax, because of Apple's low volume.

Intel doesn't really care if the model of computer is the same--as long as each uses an Intel processor and Intel motherboard chipset. Even then, I imagine that Dell's current budget leader will sell more units in the default configuration than Apple will for their entire line, in any given time period.

The line between 'server' and 'desktop' is greatly blurred when you start talking about *nixes. I can serve whatever I want from my desktop, or run applications on the server from the desktop.

Because your company has invested hundreds of thousands (or perhaps millions) of dollars in Windows software, and just as much or more on 'PC' hardware.

Be glad that you don't run a business, Oxtard.

Let's say you've got 150 seats that need a computer. You want to switch from your existing Windows-MSO desktop solution, to a Mac-MSO desktop solution. buttuming you use *nothing* but Windows and Office (a highly contrived scenario, since most organizations that size would have many other concerns), the cost would be $150,000 *just for the hardware and software*. To say nothing of the cost of retraining your employees, the cost of migration, and the downtime buttociated with such a mbuttive switchover.