The latest "Get a PC" add is lawsuit material...
Another day, another school girl going laptop hunting, albeit not for an HP this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gM4xZvrLQ
At 20 seconds, she says "this Mac is $2000", and they show a MacBook, after which they film a MacBook Pro pricetag. It's one thing to compare your products to competitors' in adds, but I suppose this is flatout against the law.
PS: just pointing out, I don't like Apple's "Hi I'm a Mac" adds either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gM4xZvrLQ
At 20 seconds, she says "this Mac is $2000", and they show a MacBook, after which they film a MacBook Pro pricetag. It's one thing to compare your products to competitors' in adds, but I suppose this is flatout against the law.
PS: just pointing out, I don't like Apple's "Hi I'm a Mac" adds either.
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I have to say that the girl is pretty attractive and the fact she says things like:
"I want it to do programs fast"
just makes you go awww, how cute.
In the end, you can't argue against the result, she got a big laptop for under $1000. You can't buy a 15" Mac laptop anywhere near that price. That's the point they make. Until Apple sell a 15" Macbook then this point is valid.
Not Law School material IMO.
In the end, you can't argue against the result, she got a big laptop for under $1000. You can't buy a 15" Mac laptop anywhere near that price. That's the point they make. Until Apple sell a 15" Macbook then this point is valid.
She ends up buying a Dell XPS13... 13inch just as the MacBook.
Though I do agree they should make a 15" MacBook, and one with a 1280x800 screen at that. You'de be surprised how many people I see in stores looking at MacBook Pro's and saying "oh the letters are too small!"
Cheap screen + same specs as MacBook 13" could keep it at the exact same price tag as a regular MacBook as well. But we just know that's not Apple's business model.
She ends up buying a Dell XPS13... 13inch just as the MacBook.
In that case, it's not such a big issue but Dell also offers a 16" model at the same price with lower specs and the same resolution and has an option for a 1080p display. To get that on a Mac, you need to get a 17" laptop.
I wouldn't like to see a big laptop with a low native resolution - once we get resolution independence, Apple should be able to ship a higher res display in all the laptops and allow users to choose what suits best.
Cheap screen + same specs as MacBook 13" could keep it at the exact same price tag as a regular MacBook as well. But we just know that's not Apple's business model.
What I find odd is there's an online screen replacement service and they charge exactly the same amount to fix a unibody 13" screen as a 15" screen:
http://www.mactuition.com/Home.html
If those parts differed in price the replacement service would differ too. I doubt that some extra aluminium adds to the price significantly. I think they'd be better starting with the Macbook Pro and stripping off parts.
Don't include an optical drive if people don't want one, same with the 9600M GT, expresscard, backlit keyboard. Removing all those things would allow the UK price to drop from £1369 to £999.
I would actually buy one without an optical drive as long as there was an extra USB port because I don't use DVDs and I think Apple's superdrives are terrible. They are noisy, slow to burn and read discs - I can't even play a movie from a disc (not an actual DVD, I mean a movie clip) without it spinning the disc down and pausing it so given that I have to copy the stuff to my hard drive anyway an external just keeps the weight down and I can get one for under £50. If it breaks, I get another for £50.
Not Law School material IMO.
Don't be fatuous.
With a budget of $1700 she spent $972. She's smarter than most everyone on this website.