Get over it, this was a performance test. I didn't see anything to indicate cost. Bottom line is that you get what you pay for. Based on past experience with many of these product lines I could never recommend Dell, HP, Alcatel and many of the others due to hardware stability issues. If you want to buy the cheapest switch (with horrible support) then go right ahead, it's your money. If you take a look at the number of features supported Cisco wins everytime, but that isn't to say that you need half of those features. Extreme and Foundry make very nice switches, but they don't always have everything you need 100% of the time.

Basically you need to get over the fact that Cisco makes a decent product despite the high prices that they charge. BTW your analogy is completely horrible!