Why wait to get an Asus Ultrabook to run Windows 7, when you can get a MacBook Air today that runs both Mac OS X and Windows 7?
Exactly!
(My neighbour only became interested in the Mac because he could run his windows software but now, he doesn't bother. As a convert, he's more vocal than a convert from smoking! )
This is funny. They are't will to buy the aluminium lathes. They aren't willing to buy the CPUs at Intel's price. Yet they want to compete with Apple, undercut them and make a high margin. What business school did they go to?
If you want high margins, you need to differentiate. Convince buyers that your product is different and better, and you can set your price wherever you want. But if you want to make a knock-off, forget about it.
How about seeing what kind of CPUs are available from AMD? I'm sure they would be happy to provide better price points on chips.
Use AMD chips instead of Intel.
Thanks to their ATI purchase AMD has chips that are better integrated offer more power and consume less.
AMD has had better chips for much less than Intel for a while now, and has had more experience with Offering a dual GPU-CPU chip as well..Intel has what? GMA integrated graphics pffft.
The so called apple tax is now a microsoft tax where manufactures other than apple have to pay msft for the operating system. I don't know what oem pricing is on this but say it is $75 per machine. That's a tax that apple does not have to pay.
The big box builders have to pay both msft and intc (or amd a little less) before they get any profit for themselves. This is why HPQ and Dell are having trouble competing .
And yes intc and msft are going to have to lower their margins if they want to maintain market share over time. Kinda fun to think about how that is going to work out.
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Why wait to get an Asus Ultrabook to run Windows 7, when you can get a MacBook Air today that runs both Mac OS X and Windows 7?
Exactly!
(My neighbour only became interested in the Mac because he could run his windows software but now, he doesn't bother. As a convert, he's more vocal than a convert from smoking!
Why wait to get an Asus Ultrabook to run Windows 7, when you can get a MacBook Air today that runs both Mac OS X and Windows 7?
AND the MacBook Air is a couple hundred dollars less.
If you want high margins, you need to differentiate. Convince buyers that your product is different and better, and you can set your price wherever you want. But if you want to make a knock-off, forget about it.
How about seeing what kind of CPUs are available from AMD? I'm sure they would be happy to provide better price points on chips.
Use AMD chips instead of Intel.
Thanks to their ATI purchase AMD has chips that are better integrated offer more power and consume less.
AMD has had better chips for much less than Intel for a while now, and has had more experience with Offering a dual GPU-CPU chip as well..Intel has what? GMA integrated graphics pffft.
The big box builders have to pay both msft and intc (or amd a little less) before they get any profit for themselves. This is why HPQ and Dell are having trouble competing .
And yes intc and msft are going to have to lower their margins if they want to maintain market share over time. Kinda fun to think about how that is going to work out.