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Not for us it doesn't ... Microsoft quoted us £100. It ultimately depends on your licensing vendor.

Even so ... it is still cheaper than the price of an iMac. $1000 is approximately £700

Average core 2 workstation costs about £400 with a Windows License ... so even if we take into account the full price with no discount (and they are easy to get), it still comes up to the same price as the iMac.

And you don't even need a dev copy of SQl Server because they include Express as part of the VS2010 install.

Also where are you going to deploy this code to? Most people have Windows Workstations, if you develop on XCode everyone would have to have a Mac and that would be expensive.

Edited 2011-05-22 10:31 UTC

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