Yesterday some friends asked me to accompany them to the Apple store in
Salem to help them purchase a Mac. I had talked to them previously about
some of the advantages of the platform including decent reliability and
in their case the much lower amount of malware targeting the system.
But
While I find the Apple OS to be pretty sweet, mostly due to the fact that it
is Unix based now, I just don't see any justification for the cost of their
systems. Someone I follow on twitter tried to convince me of how cheap
their systems are and I ended up halting the conversation with a small
To be completely fair, there are a considerable number of other hardware
components in a Mac than: Screen size, RAM, Hard Drive space, and CPU.
Let's take the screen, and I have some experience in this dept. as I've
been working on a project for the past couple years that has evaluated
about five
While you make valid points, it definitely comes down to the person.
I am and will always be a person who LOVES their desktop real estate and you
are correct, my max resolution is 1440x900. But, I am also able to adapt to
a slightly smaller resolution considering the money I saved.
While I am
Hey Everyone,
I agree with all of your assessments thus far. Woudn't it be great if Apple
opened up it's hardware model to allow for 3rd party hardware companies and
just sold the OS?I don't think I would buy it even then but it would be a
break from their monopolistic hardware/software
A couple of notes about the Mac Mini. The general stance Apple has taken
over the years is that the Mini only exists because customers insisted there
be a model like it in it's price range. It is not Apple's you're new to
Mac, but this system. When Apple wants to sell a new-to-Mac user a machine,
-- Forwarded message --
From: Jefferson Kirkland numberw...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...
To: Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net
While I am sure the Mac Mini is a nice machine, I can still get more machine
for
Jefferson Kirkland numberw...@gmail.com writes:
Ok, I linked the wrong one, sorry. The dual core was about $100 more, but
that's still way less than the $599 low end price of the mini. Plus, I really
don't care about the size of the thing, but since it was brought up, why would
I want to
Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net writes:
What bugged me about the way
[proprietary end-to-end systems provider]
sells the
[proprietary component of proprietary end-to-end solution]
is their deliberate withholding of information from the customer so
that the customer would feel obligated
