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Apple's Low Volume: Meaningful Pause Before Going Higher?

"There are Macs to match PCs at nearly every price point" ==> Not in Europe. For a proper 15'' notebook, 1699 € (x1.5=2.549 $). One of my friend wanted one. Her first buy for a notebook. But no. She bought an ASUS : 699 €.
She saved 2/3 of her monthly wage. Ans she is happy with that.
You don't need to spend 1699 € to send mail, create and print doc,store photo, surf and listen mp3.
You can afford it if you have the money for it; but no when retail heating oil, food, gas raised in a such way you lost 10, 15 or 20 percent of you purchase power.