Comments on: Apple's next act: Changing PC buying habits

By: James, Newfoundland, PA

James, Newfoundland, PA — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:09:32 +0000

People are you kidding me? Sometimes I swear no one actully reads past the word in these articles. He's not saying go out and buy that $1500 labtop if you can't afford it. He's saying if people who could afford it bought more of them the price would drop. This means everyone even the people who can't drop $1500 on a labtop, will be able to get a good quality computer. Plus I don't understand why people hate companies so much. Every company does the same thing, it's called marketing. Plus, not everyone who owns an apple product is stuck up. This is obviously true due to the fact MILLIONS of people buy there products every year. Sorry one compay in the United States is actully succeding. If you don't like their products thats fine but don't take it out on the hard working employees who rely on a pay check from this company

By: hotdogg1boy, Lake Elsinore, CA

hotdogg1boy, Lake Elsinore, CA — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:18:54 +0000

Because most PC are junk, most people choose not to invest a lot of money in their computers. Within 3 years, the computer is either obsolete or stops working. I buy an Apple computer and get many years of usage but trying to convince anyone that they are worth the extra bucks is like screaming in a padded room.

By: Scooter, Des Moines, Iowa

Scooter, Des Moines, Iowa — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:02:39 +0000

wow! jimmy, san diego: you're illiterate. i won't point out all the errors in your post, but what you meant to say is "more than." and, in another place, "better than." really, really sad. the warehouse manager where i work, a grown man with a mortgage, spelled the word "until" i-n-t-e-l-l the other day. what can be done with our education system to ensure people are getting educations rather than just diplomas? beats me!

By: Wilson, Wilmington, NC

Wilson, Wilmington, NC — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:14:39 +0000

Apple is a waste of money. I can build a PC/Laptop for $900-1000.00 and put the extra savings into some good German beer and extra memory. Besides, when I want to upgrade I won't be beholden to Apple and their fixed prices.

Throw in Linux 64 bit version for fee, and that is one bang for the buck system that will rival Apple any day. $1 for $1 one can build a system that will smoke anything Apple has to offer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:53:00 +0000

Reading this made me want to punch a baby. =|

Seriously.

Instead of encouraging people to go buy a mac, why not encourage them to actually learn how to use a computer?

OSX is basically for old people who can't run Linux or Windows, or elitist pricks who think it will help them design better.

If you know what you're doing, you can easily get a machine the blows any mac away for the same price.

You're pretty much just paying that much for a Mac for looks, not for power.

I admit though, I'd get a Macbook for looks, seeing as a Laptop doesn't need to be powerful; nor would I run any important tasks on it.

But I wouldn't be caught dead using a Mac desktop.

By: Jimmy, San Diego CA

Jimmy, San Diego CA — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:28:56 +0000

Who cares about all the specs, processors, or whatever, if you do not even have $1500 for a laptop, then keep spending time building your $500 super box. For some people like me, I rather spend the time to get some work done and make some money, which will be more then paying for the Mac/PC price difference anyway. BTW, the bottom of the new Macbook looks better then ALL other laptops out there. And yes, I am a design so I like to carry a looking laptop with me, and also date good looking women too.

By: Al Los Angeles, CA

Al Los Angeles, CA — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:38:23 +0000

iLife is not free, it seems you pay about us$500 for it. iWeb and iPhoto can easily be replaced by more powerful free apps, and I bet that less than 5% of all Mac users have ever used garageband.

Apple is great for selling you an all in one solution, but there is no way to delete things you don't need to save money.

By: Paul Shepard. Eugene, OR

Paul Shepard. Eugene, OR — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:53:26 +0000

All you young whippersnappers that are looking at buying

these new fangled graphic computers. And Apple will lead the charge again.

By: Mark P, San Francisco, California

Mark P, San Francisco, California — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:24:29 +0000

The point is that apple has been innovating here for over 8 years now. OSX was the first OS to do GUI on the video card (Quartz Extreme). Apple is number one at taking things like this that "have been done before" and making them work solid as a rock for everybody.

By: FREEDOMEYAH

FREEDOMEYAH — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:19:04 +0000

I'm sorry. Not everyone has $1500+ (CAD) to spend on a new laptop. By the way, modern integrated graphics are fine and will do for the vast majority of consumers. Buying a $1500+ computer in order to utilize the graphics for word processing, web browsing, web surfing, etc is OVERKILL. Do not speak of gaming on a laptop. For ~$500 you can build a quad core computer with an 9800gt that will outperform these new apple laptops by a third or more. I know i'm comparing a desktop to a laptop but the author of this article is making high-end graphics cards in laptops sound necessary when it is not.