I remember an item on some site, where someone compared the price of a package plus all the extras they required from "a well known PC supplier" which totalled some £50 more than the same Apple bundle!!
There's an excellent but lengthy article
here (from a Linux site, no less!), which puts the fallacious 'PCs are cheaper than Macs' argument (often touted in here) to bed. Truth is, it's really down to what you want to use it for that ultimately determines cost of ownership, but most can't see past the ticket price. The fact is that the Mac comes
ready to use for a consumer-level user, for example, while most PCs just come with an OS and some demos.