| scottie said: Those of you who claim that Imac's are more expensive must stop. Or you must actually try to justify your opinion. Yes, there is no 'low end' Mac. You could argue that the cheapest PC is $299 and the cheapest Mac is $799, as comrade tovya attempted to. But that's just not a valid comparison. So we must compare an off the shelf Mac with a PC of the same cost (yes, I know PC's can be built from scratch, but that comes with several disadvantages, and few people do it) We must also take into account that new deals for PC's come out every day, whereas a Mac product line is upgraded a couple of times a year. Because we all here are smart enough to only buy a Mac computer just after it has received upgrades or a price cut, then we can only do comparisons just after a Mac product line has received an upgrade We must also take into account that a computer running Vista home basic will run slower than a Mac with the same stats, and has considerably fewer features. Running Vista Ultimate + Google Desktop has almost as many features as the Mac OS, but runs much slower. Mac computers also have a higher build quality than many PC brands, so you cannot compare the cheapest brand of PC based computers to Apple computers. In conclusion. Mac computers are as cheap as equivalent PCs, but there is no low priced but underpowered and underfeatured model |
Alright, I am willing to give Macs some credit, but the amount of assumptions you have just made in your post is just plain ludicrous. The average person does no research whatsoever when it comes to computers. Take 1/20th of your knowledge about computers, and that is what the average person walks in to a store and buys a computer with.
People do not pay attention to when upgrades and new versions, etc. are coming out. People want their product now. You are giving the average person way too much credit.
And you completely lost me when you said that we should somehow ignore $300 computers. For what the average person uses a computer for, a $300 computer can do everything they need and more. I don't understand at all how you can just claim that we should just ignore these. These cheap ass computers are always what fly off the shelves at Black Friday and when they are on sale.
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