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• craighal - Mar 21 2009 | yahoo!, windows, apple

  There is a hardware "tax" today, but for how long? The more popular Apple systems are, the more the sell, and the cheaper they'll get. It's certainly no reason to be lax. It reminds me of when Apple was just a blip on the radar (think back to 2000) and was largely ignored by Redmond for years.

  Quoted: As reported by Todd Bishop of TechFlash, Ballmer offered his theory as to why Macintosh sales fell 16 percent in February, according to stats from market-researcher NPD Group:

  Quoted: "The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment -- same piece of hardware -- paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be."

  Quoted: The Mac vs. PC argument is an old one, certainly, and Ballmer's hardly an impartial observer in the debate. But does Steve have a point? Take the MacBook, for instance. The white 13-inch model with a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo chip, 2GB of memory and a 120GB hard drive is still $999. Compared to similarly-equipped Windows notebooks, that's awfully pricey.