One of the many reasons I will not buy Apple. You're buying the brand, the name, not actual quality.<p>I dont know what the exact percent is, but you're paying a significant markup on hardware for Apple vs, say a Dell, for the same hardware. Yeah, OS X is BSD based, but Dell will sell you the equivalent hardware for about half the price and guarantee it works with Linux (with support).<p>I'm not a Dell fan, despite most of my prior purchases being Dell, but they dont do an insane markup on Linux installs.<p>Tangent: I've also seen devs work on Macs have their code fail when dployed because they assume OS X is <i>nix and Linux is </i>nix not recognizong that by default, the MacFS is case insensitive, like Windows, but Linux is case sensitive by default.