Fervent Mac users are quick to say, "You get what you pay for" to justify the price of owning an Apple Macintosh computer or portable Macbook computer.
Laptops are outselling desktops like crazy right now and have been for some time – and this counts for Apple as well. Their desktop line, like all other computer manufacturers, have taken a huge hit sales-wise.
In the "get what you pay for" realm, with the Macbook line the one thing you don’t get for the money is screen size – and that matters. For many people that’s the make-or-break decision on whether to buy a laptop or not.
If you want anything over a 13-inch screen on a new Macbook, it will cost you over $1000, period.
Microsoft has capitalized on this:
BUT… and this is a big BUT…
A 17-inch screen on a laptop is just too frickin’ big for most people. Yes, the display is nice, but it’s when carrying it around that it proves to be quite cumbersome.
The be-all/end-all perfect laptop screen sizes are 14-inch normal aspect and 15-inch widescreen. There has not been a size before or since that matches up for more people’s eyes better. It’s also more portable and lighter.
Those laptops can be had for under $400 new.
That’s less than half the price of a 13-inch Macbook. Now that’s a deal.
For the Mac fans that would say, "I don’t care, it’s still got crappy Windows on it", shaddup. It’s $600 less, the screen is a full two inches larger and if I don’t feel like using Windows I can put Ubuntu on it.
The best line from the commercial above is, "I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person."
In today’s economy, nobody wants to be "cool". If to be "cool" you must shell out $1000 for a Macbook with a 13-inch screen while other makes are larger and less than half the price, you can take your "cool" and shove it.
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The comment about “crappy windows” is BS in my opinion anyway. I recently had the displeasure of using OS X for a few days and grew and honest dislike for that operating system. Plus when you are using a $2000 apple computer hooked up to lightning fast internet you don’t expect to have to click a link twice because it didn’t take on the first click, way to go safari! Ok so I want to close the stupid thing… Wth? The close button is on the top left??? Ah wait forgot this is apple they have to be different whether people like their different or not.
You are saying that you dislike OSX because Safari isn’t the best thing. In that case you should dislike windows too because internet explorer isn’t the best. So such it up and download another browser. Also you are b*tching because the window buttons are on the left hand side. Get used to it, its really not a big deal.
Just don’t hate on OSX because you ignorant.
I am not ignorant, and I will get used to nothing. I dislike it so I won’t use it. Typical apple user come back. Btw, I use Fire Fox. Hmmm… I also don’t like it that OS-X is so restrictive, you cant even see what components are inside the machine. Makes me wonder if Apple is getting away with putting junk under the hood. Why else would they hide that information from the casual user?
I just love when my friends have Macs that break down and they have to take it in somewhere and lose their laptops for a few days. Generally on a PC you can have most problems fixed within minutes to hours even if it was a hardware issue.
In fact both friends who had mac books and swore they were better than my hp laptop have had their mac books fried at some point and had to have them replaced. I have not had one issue with my HP laptop that has been anything more than shutting down a program and reopening. Plus my HP cost half what they paid for their mac books and does everything they can do.
I have had nearly the exact situation with a friend of mine, only my laptop is a Gateway.
Its quite a coincidence that the computer plus tax added up to a “balance due” of 699.99. Are there states that don’t charge sales tax?
I had a PC for years and years and my girlfriend always used Mac. I thought that Pc was the best because if something went wrong i could just open it up and fix it myself with easy to upgrade parts and if your need to get some third party software you could usually find it on the Web for free.
Wake up people!!!
I have already done the job with my Mac while your still surfing your way through viruses looking for the answers.
Mac is Sooooooo much better
I personally have been a PC user for 15+ years of my life. I’m a 22 year-old college student who has just switched from Windows to mac earlier this year. I tell you, I was VERY skeptical at first, especially regarding the price issue. But after buying my first macbook, I can see now why they are priced the way they are. The price difference between mac and PCs are a lot closer than most people realize. On mac you don’t pay additional for antivirus software, music editing, and you save time in not having to run scan disk or even disk defrag. Also, everything just runs smoother and the way it should be cause both hardware and software are coming from the SAME SOURCE (apple) where as in PC you probably have tens of dozens of different sources for the different components under the hood. Thus, even when you google a problem you’re having on a mac, it’s easier to find and to pinpoint.
Everything I want to do on the mac it “just works”. I’ll be honest, however, my macbook has frozen up on me on a couple of occasions. But they are FAR LESS then what I’ve been experiencing on windows over the years.
All in all, Mac has been the SMOOTHEST computer experience I’ve ever had. And since I have Windows XP installed on it as well, I have BEST of BOTH worlds!