I can not justify paying way more for way less
Dont read too much into the specs, Mac-o-philes will drill you endless that a comparable spec Mac will drip over a PC. They aren't actually lying, it's not so much that Mac's are brilliantly efficient, but that PC's are not efficient - compared to other systems that have come and gone over the years.
Heck even the low end of the PC systems today are superior in performance to the mid range Apples.
Nah, superior in a few specification details maybe, but not in performance.
Why on earth these excesive prices?
Because they have a huge wage bill in their design and R&D department, when most PC manufacturers dont even have an R&D department.
I mean its not like a dress, no one is really going to say, "Wow, you got a mac? Your so vogue!" or anything.
Actually, i'm not trying to pull you to pieces i'm really not, but Mac-o-philes are like that. The Mac is the slinky little black dress of computers, and those who like slinkly little black dresses will always comment on how yours looks, and how small it makes your bum look. It's a bit like the playground arguments of C64 v's Spectrum when I was a kid, only with more money and less common sense.
Mac's are good machines and they have a fiercly loyal user base, which is mostly the reason why i'm interested in developing for it. If they wheren't so hell bent on proving that they have shareware too then I there wouldn't be any reason to make shareware for the Mac...