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Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Fri, 6 Jul 2012 02:38:44 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: So I paid less for my Macbook Pro than what this costs, vvk, Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:39:14
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just taking a quick look at online prices, the Toshiba Ultrabooks look to be a better value. The $1200 one specs out a little higher than the comparably priced Air (with an i7 instead of i5 and more ram). Ditto for the $1000 model (larger screen among other things)... The Pros are all seemingly $200-300 more... very hard to compare machines exactly because they are rarely identical specs (eg does your mac have the same size ssd, or something else? was it built before the floods?). You also need to compare models at the same moment of time at the same store (which is what I just did) because price fluctuations can be significant (even more for PCs than Macs).

I think it all comes down to the user experience one is looking for. Most of my friends who like Macs are pretty happy with them, so there is no reason for PC users to not give one a try... but imho the reasons to buy one have a lot more to do with the OS or the aesthetics of the packaging than some cold hard value proposition. Really, the mac laptops are not *that* different from other laptops. Mac Mini, sure... iMac, sure... those are different (not that I would ever advise someone buy an iMac)... but the laptops are pretty normal.

The other thing too is that as a % of revenue, my understanding is those Macbooks are not that important in the Apple portfolio. The iPod (and subsequent variants - phone, pad etc) are completely what drives Apple's revenue stream. My understanding is that Jobs wanted to more or less exit the "PC" business over time and transition his customer base to a tablet experience where Apple would have a greater monopoly. It is a sound business strategy, and Apple has been very successful with it so far. Remember, it was not that long ago that Apple was not nearly so successful, when they were just selling computers: Apple might not have even survived if Steve Jobs had not returned!
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