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

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disolitude said:

Its not my company...Online advertising in general.  It doens't matter...you made a post that no one really cared about and now are using it to say that people don't read threads. I still think waiting to buy a mac until firesale is on is the dumbest thing I've heard today... If everyone did that macs would had a 0.00002% marketshare or would already be out of business.

Only one biased here is you since you persistantly argue Macs do everything PCs do better...yet you admit that you need Windows for some applications.

 

 

 

But you did NOT read the thread. It wasn't until I called you for it that you bothered to do so. And because you didn't read the thread, you spammed the same tired old anti-apple propaganda that, on top of it, happens to be false.

You still do not get the whole thing with apple's pricing schemes, which is understandable because you've got deeply ingrained in your mind the whole overpriced idea. I'll try again: it is not a firesale. It's just buying your apple computer when apple's margins are tighter so you get more bang for your buck - in fact, the same bang you'd get if you bought a regular pc box. It's a smart consumer approach. If you are willing to donate to Job's private island fund, feel free to buy their computers as late as possible. But for the rest of us, we'll take'em early in the revision cycle.

As for whether or not Macs do things better than PC's... in the end it's a matter of personal tastes. But my personal experience, coming from over a decade of being a wintel user, is that they do. The user interface is ace and window management craps all over xp, vista, etc. Both Exposé and Spaces rock. Period. They also tend to hold performance and stability over-time better than windows does - I've heard it's because installing applications on a unix-based OS doesn't involve messing with things like a registry and other backbone process of the OS /shrug, I'm no engineer.

You are right that Mac OS X doesn't have all the software support that windows does - windows holds around 90% of the market, so that's a given. But the key thing is that an apple computer allows you a better computing experience for everything that runs on mac os x (and support for that is growing FAST) and for whatever remains, there's always bootcamp. Meanwhile, a windows box means you are stuck with windows.

To put in another light, the computer will roughly cost you the same money, be it either apple or any wintel box (as long as you are smart about when you buy it). But the apple computer will give you more for the money - a kick ass OS and the choice to use windows, shall the need arise.

edit: as for macs only being for people who don't care about computers at all, boy you coulnd't be more wrong. Apple uses that card because mac os x is much friendlier than windows so it means there's less messing with the machine and more doing whatever you want to do with it. But for the true geeks, below the user interface lies a fully unix-compliant OS. That's way more advanced than windows, more tweakable, etc.