One thing for me justifies the extra cost
Spotlight search: instant response, full-text searching across every document, email, past-visited website or any other file on the computer. My job involves very long-running engagements with clients and being able to bring up ancient correspondence, specifications or code is essential. I can find things with a single word and it really is instant. I'm not sure how it does it but it's saved my job so many times.

Windows has search, but it's incredibly slow as it chunks through each file on your hard drive, and the indexing service slows everything else down. It doesn't seem to find things that I know are there either.

This feature alone saves me hours a week and more than pays for itself. There's nothing particularly special about Apple hardware, but the operating system is outstanding.
( Scrumper, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:04, Reply)