You get to choose the corner

> Show us these similarly spec'd PCs that are half the price.

> They don't exist. Either they have cut corners

Well that's the rub. If you buy a PC, you get to decide what corners you want cut. If you buy and Apple, you simply have no choice. You either take what the corporate overlord wants to sell you or you do without completely.

Sucks if you've got any investment in iTunes content with DRM or expensive proprietary apps.

With a PC, I can pick my tradeoffs and spend 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 the price.

It's ultimately the same spare parts made by other companies with production outsourced to China.