Mac Laptops Earn 20% of US Market, 35% of revenue.

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disolitude said:

The post you made about the "time to buy apple products" is pretty funny. You expect consumers to wait to get products they would like to buy because the price is not competitive. Yes, wait for Apple god to say its time to buy...give me a break.

One can jump through all the hoops apple would like...but on the end of the day even with that guide one can easily find macs to be more expensive (although not as much if you dont mind waiting) then equivalent pcs. 

The thing is, not everyone is a computer expert nor do they want to use 2 OS on one computer to do what they would like to do. (get a mac...but bootcamp a game or whatever else doesn't work on Mac OS...lol). Macs may do what you want them to do...but they still lack the support that pcs have.

Here is an example, I work in online advertising industy and when it comes to the biggest ad servers in the world (dart and atlas)...neither support mac OS. They user interface doesnt run on anything but IE. Infact most of the time we have a complicated flash ad, or a rich media ad...we just turn off the targetting to mac OS. The ad is optimized for windows and IE and this saves us the trouble of having to torubleshoot macs since we know that ad will have issues.

I know that mac fans such as you are hoping mac becomes the dominant platform but until that happens you really can't pretend like it is...

 

What's funny is how you interpret the post. I'm telling you and everybody that if you want to buy apple without overpaying, you can, as long as you are smart about it. You seem quite reluctant to drop the "bu-bu-but macs are exPENssIVE!" bulletpoint and I understand since it's quite a useful argument (afterall, who wants to be ripped off?) - but even PC sites like tom's hardware have done the comparison. Within those 30-45 days window the Mac Pro premium is under 100$. I wouldn't call 100$ on a 3k machine a relevant price difference.

By the way, since you aren't saying anything about word processing, I'm assuming you are dropping your silly claim that pc's are better for word processing. Phew - some common sense, at least.

So your company doesn't support mac os for ads. Cool. It neither supports alternative browsers to IE - firefox? opera? chrome? etc... see you accuse me of hoping the mac becomes the dominant platform, but it looks like you are just projecting your hope that nothing takes over windows and Internet  Explorer because then your company might have to build the adds for cross-browser compatibility.

In a nutshell, smart buyers get mac computers at comparable prices to similarly geared pc boxes. The software support is growing and for whatever it hasn't transitioned yet, you have bootcamp. Thanks for clearing that up, disolitude.

Anyways, you didn't read the thread. At least from now on, you might bother to read the threads before hitting the reply button to spam your biased agenda.