On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Jeff Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Most Mac users have at least some degree of experience using Windows > equipped computers, but few Windows users have ever had their hands on > a Mac to any practical degree. In the latest ad, "G" says that Macs > are "sexy" and great on aesthetics but they have little computing > power compared to a Windows machine. Perhaps he has used Macs in the > past and personally found them to be highly anemic for computing > purposes, or he is the victim of BS. > Macs are sexy and have fantastic aesthetics...and I don't say that sarcastically at all. He is making two points, A: they are sexy and B: they have little computing power. I took this as little computing power for the price...which is true. 1500 dollars for a mac and 1500 dollars for a acer/toshiba/cyberpower branded laptop will get you more power on the pc side. We can argue semantics about 'quality' but I think those are straw men. The hardware on the mac side is high quality, but it's all also available on the pc side for less cost to the end user. Want proof? Check apple prices on memory upgrades on new machines as opposed to buying memory from a vendor. > > So, for the sake of this particular message, let's put aside the > talk of wide choices in the make and model of the machine and focus > instead purely on the OS. Are the "buyers" who are being targeted in > any ads for any computer making their choices based upon the OS or > based primarily upon the machine? If prices for Windows computers > were up there with Macintosh prices, would sales of Windows machines > decline? Or, if prices for Macs fell to those of most PCs, would > Windows users move to the Mac OS? Also, since Windows machines are so > much cheaper, as well as allegedly being better than or at least > equivalent to Apple machines in quality. why don't Mac users switch? > Don't get snarky here. > Priced the same...I'd say OS X would increase by quite a lot. Why don't mac users switch? I did. I used macs only for years and switched, I did so because of the cost benefit. I think you'd find most (not all of course) mac users can for lack of a better way to say it, afford them. I haven't switched back because I have no reason to, I hold not enough value on aesthetics when it costs thousands, and I can function in windows easily. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
