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  • Mac is less popular among Apple customers than iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch

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    nicholfd said:
    goofy1958 said:
    Between my wife and I, we have 2 iPhones, 2 watches, 2 Airpod Pros, an Apple TV 4k, and I have 2 Homepod Minis in my office.  The only thing we don't have are Macs and that is simply because they are, to us, too expensive for what you get.  My Dell PC with the same performance and specs as a Macbook Pro is less than 1/2 the cost.  I simply cannot justify the extra money for the same performance.  I have used a Macbook Pro in the past when supplied by my company, and loved it.  If Apple would just come down on their pricing for the Macbook Pro, we'd jump in a heartbeat.
    I call BS on that.  What's the Dell display specs vs. Apple equivalent - resolution, PPI, color gamut, brightness, etc.?  What's the battery life on the Dell vs. MacBook (Air/Pro)? What's the storage speed comparison?  Weight?

    I justified a MacBook Pro at my employer by custom spec'ing a Dell, with as close as possible specs as the MacBook Pro.  I couldn't get battery or display on the Dell to be as good as the MacBook Pro, and the two systems were within $100 of each other.
    Not true. I think Dell PC = Desktop = better value. If you have the space and no need to regular transport the computer to different locations, than a regular desktop is miles a head in value. For a long time, the Apple Display was not user friendly, thanks to the obsession with glossy displays. So you wanted to something to work with, it was very likly, that even with a Mac, you also used something from Dell & Co.

    I really wanted for some time a new Mac for Xcode. But Apple is to greedy. Currently I can only buy a Mac Mini or Mac Studio. If you configure a Mini to useful setup, than it is better to buy a Studio anyway. In the Desktop realm, you can get PC Hardware, at 1/3 - 2/3 the cost of a equivalent Apple Hardware. Even if I have the money for it, I do not support this bad behavior from Apple.
    watto_cobra