Well, without wanting to start a war
, not so long ago and in 'another place' I asked exactly what made Apple Macs so special that they cost 50% more than a similarly specced PC. It was a serious question - I wasn't knocking the Mac and I really wanted to know, partly because I've gone off Windows and sadly a lot of useful stuff won't run under Linux.
The replies fell into two camps - those who said that actually Macs weren't that expensive for the performance they delivered, and those who said it didn't matter because they looked, er, 'cool'.
So I went onto the Apple site and looked at the Mac Pro with a decent spec, and then I looked at Mesh, Dell and a few other PCs with similar power (probably) and yes, I was wrong. The Mac was actually nearly twice as much.
Having said that, everything here is nearly twice as much as you pay in the US, so maybe the prices are more competitive in the home market.