that reads like defensive mac fanboy garbage to be honest.
The only bit that makes a bit of sense is the resale value and that only backs up the fact that they are expensive
I think when he wrote the article the world was in the middle of a huge wave of Vista hatred and he had enormous horn on for his iPhone.
The thing with PC's is that you can do what you want with them - I have always found the Apple universe very limiting, and it is only getting worse and worse. I hate the fuckers and wouldn't support them even if their machines ran twice as fast as my PC and cost half as much.
They are slowly killing the computer.