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Look, to the people defending this article, there is one and only one bottom line: Manjoo's entire argument is "Mac's have higher resale value, therefore they are cheaper."
That is about as dishonest an argument you are ever going to find. If I said a Lamborghini was cheaper than a Buick, I'd be lying. It is not accurate to say that a more expensive product is in fact cheaper than a less expensive product because of its resale value. When, in discussing any other product, do you say something similar? Never. Manjoo wants to leverage his anti-PC diatribes, so he comes up with a dishonest, specious argument. This isn't worthy of a high school newspaper.
On top of that is the fact that a tiny percentage of computer owners-- yes, even Mac owners-- will ever sell their old computers. The computer resale market is tiny, tiny, tiny. And one reason for that is that people can reprocess their old PC parts into a new PC. Unlike with a Mac, I can reuse my old hard drives, optical drives, RAM, PCI cards.... I don't have to resell my PC. It retains value through my use of old parts.
In general, the debate of Mac vs. PC rages on. More power to everyone who wants to fight it. But there's no debating the fact that this post by Manjoo showed a startling lack of integrity.
