I accepted his challenge to test it myself. (Score 1)

Result for a medium end laptop :

Macbook pro 1999$

Dell equivalent 1449$

Here is the link to the image from both web site that I pasted:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=536493127& size=o

That journalist probably forget to remove the commission he received from apple to write this article. Maybe with that amount in balance he can pay the same amount for mac than for pc ... I can't.