Consumer Reports on apple
Well i got a new Consumer Reports yesterday (well parents did), i went and looked at the computer section. Apple got excellent ratings on all, except was listed on high price of course. They didnt have the new iBooks in it, but just apple in general had nice ratings. All others had some bads on them.
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Originally posted by DMBand0026
\\Makes me wonder why more people don't use them.
I have 2 reasons to that, or opinions...
1) Price
2) People are so wrapped up in the windows world already. Are blinded by windows "Blue Screen Death".
Originally posted by killer2239
I have 2 reasons to that, or opinions...
1) Price
Wrong.
2) People are so wrapped up in the windows world already. Are blinded by windows "Blue Screen Death".
Right.
I mean everyone is so caught up in windows. All you see everywhere you go is windows. Only big retail store that sells macs is CompUSA. And you see like 20 windows commercials (or anything that uses windows) to 1 mac commerical. Everyone thinks that there is no software for mac. I found no problem at all with software. It was big fear when switching. Just its always been micrsofts world since 95. Slowly, and very slowly are people noticing mac. Or have noticed, but didnt like. Just havent given OS X a chance, or just now noticing its qaulitys. Thats my thoughts on it.
Price does have factor, lots of people dont wanna spend 1-5 thousand dollars a a new mac. When they can get a so called "decent/good" windows machine for 700-1000 after all those rebates.
Two things:
1) their readers often chew them out for trying to compare (pardon the pun) apples to oranges -- in one letter the CR staff said they found OS X much easier to work with than Windows.
2) their last desktop test, a 1.8Ghz G5, was listed as costing $3650! Must have got that Apple RAM installed.
Originally posted by killer2239
Price does have factor, lots of people dont wanna spend 1-5 thousand dollars a a new mac. When they can get a so called "decent/good" windows machine for 700-1000 after all those rebates.
People can get a so called "decent/good" Apple machine for 800-1100 (without any rebates).
Look, I just did an experiment at Dell, customizing their CHEAPEST machine to package it up as close to an eMac as I could get. It was something like $40 MORE. And then it is a poorly slapped together piece of junk. Apple is more competitive on price than it may look at first glance.
Admittedly, many people don't get past the "first glance", and companies like Dell are masters at offering you a PC "from $499", only to make you find out that $400 later, you're not any cheaper than Apple afterall. (Last I knew that used to be called "bait and switch"...but I'm probably old-fashioned.)
So you spend 30-45 minutes doing this. Why?