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Now that Apple has dropped prices on their older Macbook model, people have been giving Apple a little more credit on their more affordable pricing. But will the fact or fiction concept of “Mac Tax” ever go away? Some people have reported that Microsoft created this term in recent years in response to Apple’s growing success. Even an article at Technologizer.com reported, after comparing similar models to the 13″ macbook, that the ‘Mac Tax’ was a myth. However early Mac Tax was created, I’ve heard and used the term ‘Apple Tax’ for quite some time. The difference between what people accuse of being the ‘Windows Tax’ to the ‘Mac Tax’ is that while Microsoft offers their operating system to companies (and of course charges them for using it), Apple makes their own technology and limits their OS to it. So windows tax can only go so far - it is the manufacturers that decide in the end how much to price their units (Sony, Lenovo, Acer, etc), however Apple puts a price on their OS AND their systems. There were many criticisms for the comparison article since one can argue that the laptops compared were from other high end brands that had similar ‘taxes’, and that the 13″ notebook market is almost exclusive to Apple, so a more fair comparison should be in the 15″ range. Not only that, Apple has a way of releasing a product at a relatively competitive price when new, and as time goes on and all of its competitions drop their prices to reflect the market, Apple keeps their price and then becomes ‘overpriced’. That does not prevent people from buying it of course.