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Jef, you made some excellent points, as others have, about reselling computers. Here's another one: even if you can resell your Mac after a year or two and end up with more money than you would have if you had done so with a PC, you also have no computer. And if you buy another Mac, you then may still have less money than you would have if you had bought a PC.
For example, if you bought a Mac for $1200, and then sold it a year later for $800, and then bought another Mac for $1200, you'd be down $1600. Whereas if you bought a PC for $900, sold it a year later for $400, and then bought a new one for $900, you're only down $1400.
I don't know if this is an accurate reflection of the type of price differences we're talking about, but it does point (again) to a flaw in Farhad's argument, namely that computers are appliances more than they are commodities, and no matter how much they're worth, you can't really treat them as an investment.
