>>4193
I'll bite.
Buying a Apple computer is no different than buying one of the many other branded all-in-one PCs or laptops. Apple's just better at marketing, which I guess this guy's >>4193 buying, because every statement in that post against "PC" can and does apply to Apple computers. Let's not forget that the very statement "Mac vs PC" is part of the same marketing meant to make people think that a "Mac" is not just another computer which it most certainly is unless retards need reminding what the 2 letters of "PC stand for".
>a Mac just works
So does any other pre-built computer until it breaks, which happens to Apple computers just as often as any other brands of computers would (and about as often as OS X is updated to slow your shit Mac down, which I don't consider to "just work").
>unlike a PC which has to be continually upgraded with new parts all the time
Compared to an Apple computer that also has to be continually upgraded with new parts all the time (or, as it is with typical Apple buyers, buy a whole new computer)? Or upgrading your device's OS to a later version that its hardware wasn't designed to have? The latter part playing into what you said:
>Face it, the mish-mash ... [everything else]
That's the illusion they're trying to sell with their clean and, I'll admit, pretty effective marketing. The mish-mash of parts in a non-Apple computer is no different from the mish-mash of parts in an Apple one. The "premium pricing" Apple has goes to shit when you can basically build your own "Mac" with the exact same relevant parts and even OS X for significantly cheaper as proven by the existence of Hackintosh computers.
In a typical Macbook, you get a current generation mid-to-high speed Intel processor, a Hitachi hard drive (I think the SSDs are Toshiba), Hynix (Hyundai Electronics) RAM, and a GPU from NVIDIA (or ATI if it's old). All of which are parts you can find a lot of other computers and, at least for the memory and drives, you can swap that with other brands the same way you can in a non-Apple computer. It's built with the same parts just like any other laptop from every other brand, even OEM originals, just put together differently (just like how EVERY brand puts their stuff together differently).
Use any Macbook for some "actual work" and you'll notice how your "hardware that's compatible with each other" starts cooking whatever you placed the laptop on. It's no "perfectly compatible hardware" when the very thing that connects your hard drive to the motherboard just melts because it's positioned where the heat tends to NOT be handled very well. Its hardware is nothing special you can find in some other similarly spec'd laptops (or even all-in-one desktops) other than being wrapped in a package of marketing fluff and a look designed to make people think it's special on the inside (when it's practically the same as any other computer).
The only significant thing it brings to the table is QS X just like what >>4192 mentions. I'll admit I'll take it over Windows, but that's like deciding what kind of shit I'd rather eat.
A Mac/Macbook is just another branded computer, albeit one that knows how to trick people like you into thinking it's something significantly special. Apple does their computers their own way. Same as how Lenovo, HP or Dell does their computers their own way. Same as all the other brands that use all the same OEMs do their own way. With almost all the other major brands and some minor ones you can also buy a pre-built computer with the same illusion of "all of the pieces are designed from the ground up to be compatible with each other, so instead of a box with a bunch of random pieces, you buy a box that is unified in structure and function, in which all of the pieces work in harmopny".
"Macs" are no more special than all the other brands that put their own computers together. What your argument can be better be used in is a "pre-built vs customized" build argument because I'll admit that paying a little extra to not fuck around with your own custom build can be a good thing in some use cases. But, if that argument is ever used specifically in favor of Apple computers, then you can dismiss whoever is making that case as some poor shmuck that's been effectively convinced by marketing, image crafting, and branding. Everything "just works" until it breaks.
And that's me speaking as some shmuck that once did fall for that marketing who's typing from my Linux-running Macbook because I still haven't gotten my broke ass to buy something better.