On 2/15/07, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sure you can get a cheap, low-end laptop that has pretty good specs, but by the time to add in the things that apple has you find the prices are very competitive. Most of the time when someone shows me what they think is an equivalent laptop, we find that the processor is not the same (say 1.8 instead of 2 gHz), the ram is not the same, hard drive size, computer weight, peripheral expansion features, etc are all not quite up to the apple level. Now not everyone needs a fully-loaded laptop, which is pretty much what Apple sells (in the MacBook Pro line anyway). Even on the middle-end, the MacBook is pretty comparable.
I would actually say that the "middle-end" is where the MacBook is the hardest to match/beat. I've done lots of looking at sub-14" laptops in that "middle" price/performance category and that's where I think Apple has the biggest (sharpest?) edge. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
