“Apple’s well-crafted machines have been gobbling up market share, even though the MacBook and MacBook Pro cost more than many other laptops,” Rob Pegoraro reports for The Washington Post.
MacDailyNews Take: Compare hardware features and you’ll find that similarly-configured Macs are very competitive or less expensive than Windows box assemblers’ offerings that simply cannot compete with the Mac’s included software and operating system. Apple’s refuses to offer junky low-end personal computers that won’t serve the customer well.
Pegoraro continues, “Manufacturers of laptops that run Windows complain about having to compete in a commodity market yet fail to make their machines less of a commodity. They ship machines built from the same components, add the same mediocre programs and hope that some glossy paint will make the results stand out.”
“The most critical number for a laptop is its weight,” Pegoraro writes. “The default batteries on a Dell Inspiron 1520 and an HP Pavilion dv2500t, for example, kept them running for only 2 hours 9 minutes and 1 hour 52 minutes of DVD playback, respectively. Higher-capacity batteries can extend those times but add bulk and weight. A MacBook’s standard battery, meanwhile, lasted 3 hours in the same test, and a Toshiba Satellite U305 ran almost as long.”
“The most important part of any computer can be the software it operates on. But this gets little attention from firms besides Apple: Its Mac OS X and iLife multimedia programs offer an ease of use and elegance absent in Windows,” Pegoraro writes.
Full article here.
I own a MacBook and absolutely love it. I bought it about six months ago. I did look into PCs but their size and weight was much more that the Mac. I spent every penny I had saved for a lap top on the Mac but do not regret for one moment that I chose it over the PCs.
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“Compare hardware features and you’ll find that similarly-configured Macs are very competitive or less expensive than Windows box assemblers’ offerings”
A friend recently was looking into laptops and he, of course, reiterated the exceedingly ancient myth that Macs are always more expensive. Taking him to Apple’s site and Dell’s site showed that in similarly configured laptops the MacBook Pro was ALWAYS cheaper than the Dull.
People seem unable to truly compare all the specs about a machine (laptops, desktops etc.) when they need to make a purchase.
Apple makes GREAT machines.
Apple demands quality components from suppliers.
Apple enhances quailty by requesting vendors to improve.
Apple products are NOT over priced.
THEN add in Apple Software… comsumer GETS a huge deal.
j – and I am a different j then all others here.
Cubert, good point! Very true!
However I have known a great many people who will buy a no-name $400-$600 box or portable and use it until it breaks, then throw it away and get another.
All they seem to care about is going on the cheap and running Windows.
And they seem so smug about it too!
Very sad indeed.
All to often these articles are relegated to a sub-heading called Apple or in the case of Wired Mag – Cult of Mac. I’m just glad to see a plethora of articles lately, in favour of Macs, showing up in non-Mac-centric PC columns. This goes a long way to eliminating the impression of unfair bias either toward or against Apple products.
I’m sorry, but I need another viewpoint.
Zune Tang. Are you out there? We need your expert commentary on this one.
> The most important part of any computer can be the software it operates on…
THAT could have been the only paragraph in the article. The comparison can end there.
Leave Zune Tang out of this. He’s tied up with tech support because of Windoze trouble, hence unavailable right now. I’m enjoying the flow today, actually.
Positive Mac news uninterrupted. Ahhhhhhh!
Peace.
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I say, come on you MDN chaps. There are 159 HTML errors on this page. Safari is not displaying the article; only the comments in a tiny font.