I'm trying to buy a laptop for myself. Nothing too fancy; just something on which I can play some games and watch some movies when I'm not using the MacBook Air given to me by work or for review. Right now, I'm strongly leaning towards a Windows 10 laptop, not least because I've. But it's also because, you know, Windows laptops are almost always cheaper than a comparable Mac, and I'm not made of money. And yet, buying a Windows laptop can be an extremely frustrating and time-consuming process, and all the Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Asus machines I'm looking at tend to blur together after a while.

Just browsing the PC section at any given store involves comparing a lot of very similar looking machines, all with very slight variations on screen resolution, processor speed, memory, and the like. I like to think of myself as reasonably tech savvy, and it's still — not to mention the fear I might pick the 'wrong' PC and waste my cash. It's a great reminder of just: Buying a Mac is so much easier and more straightforward than buying a PC ever has been.

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And it's a big part of why. The genius of Apple If you have an older MacBook, the new MacBook is guaranteed to be better. Trade up the thing you know you like for the. Apple only has five PC product lines to choose from — MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air, plus the iMac and and Mac Mini desktop computers. This is a vastly streamlined process, taking a lot of the stress out of computer shopping. Walk in to an Apple Store with your budget set, and Apple has the right laptop for that price point — provided you're willing to spend at least $499 for the Mac Mini or $999 for the MacBook Air, the cheapest Apple desktop and laptop computers you can currently get. Steve Jobs introduces the iMac in 1997.

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Mousse Mousse/Reuters And speaking of the Apple Store, that was another big Steve Jobs initiative that really helped the Mac become what it is today. It provides a friendly place to try Macs out, as well as knowledgeable staff members who can help you figure out if you really need a MacBook Pro versus a MacBook Air. All of this together, combined with its famed 'It Just Works' approach to software, is a big part of why Apple can command luxury prices, even when the specs on each individual machine may not be anything special compared to a PC. Macs don't even have touchscreens yet!

They're simply easier to buy, and you can be assured you're getting something better when you trade up from last year's model to the new one. People are willing to pay when you spare them a difficult decision. On babies and bathwater From Microsoft's perspective, Apple's oversimplified approach is throwing the babies out with the bathwater: One of the longtime strengths of Windows is that you can get it on expensive, high-end gaming PCs, or you can get it on the cheap $200 laptops you can find at Walmart. It's been this way pretty much since Windows launched in the 80's. As an operating system company, not primarily a hardware company, Microsoft is a big fan of Windows making its way to computers of all shapes and sizes.