Apple twice the price of PCs
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversResearch by analyst house NPD has shown that, on average, Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users.
Retail data showed that in June the average cost of a Windows laptop was $700, compared to $1,515 for an Apple machine. The difference was even more stark with desktop models, with the average Windows machine going for $550, compared to $1,543 for an Apple.
"There are plenty of Windows PCs you can buy at high prices," Stephen Baker, NPD’s vice president of industry analysis told vnunet.com.
"But if you want to buy an Apple you don’t have any choice, you’ll have to pay more."
He said that in his opinion it was just a choice Apple had made and the company could argue that the value of the software and brand made up for the price differential.
The situation was comparable with the car market, he explained. BMW and Chevy make basically the same product – a car – but the difference in branding, how customers were treated and perceived value allows BMW to charge more.
This is not to say that Apple doesn’t make low cost products. He praised the company for its skilful roll out of a range of iPod media players to suit all markets without lowering brand value.
But he warned that, in his opinion, it was unlikely that Apple would be bringing out a low-cost computer line any time soon.
"I’ve wrestled with that one, but I don’t see today what the driver is to make them want to do that."
"Sales are still growing stronger than anyone else’s in the market so there’s little incentive. That’s the kind of strategy you adopt when you realise growth is slowing."
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Comments(8)
who cares...seriously. quit posting the same articles over and over and over again just
worded differently. if you post one more topic about midori not killing windows one more
time i'm boycotting this garbage site.
yep, another reason not to buy a mac!!! overpriced garbage that steals code from linux
and calls it their own.
have you two whiners above ever been close to a new imac?
it's made better
than any pc out there and the os and user experience are great.
i use both, but
if i had to chose, i'd prolly go with an apple.
the hardware used to make a mac is no better than the hardware to make a pc. if you
happen to like the os better than windows........that's a different story. apple has had
a long history of raping it's loyal customers.
this is to rock...
sure they have neat commercials but their support s*cks, they are
super easy to hack (hence hackers promote macs or in your case imac), and there is little
3rd party software out there. 93% of the world cannot be wrong, microsoft is the best for
a consumer to purchase and be compatible with each other and future proof.
maybe you live in a different reality where windows is more secure lol... no os is 100%
secure but show me a public remote exploit for mac and i will go out and buy vista
tomorrow!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9905095-37.html
in a hacking contest a while
ago, 3 computers, macos, vista, and linux were available to hack. all oses are patched to
the latest security patch at the time.
macos got owned in 2 minutes.
if you're really into security, you'll know the fact that macos has not got the best
record in the term of security.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=49210
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/04/1131251
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/23/mac_vuln_contest/
found in a 3 sec
google search....coulda posted enough to fill a couple web pages. this should be enough
for you to go out and purchase a copy of vista for your, and a couple more for your wife
and kids.
daleski gasps in shock "you mean everything on tv commercials isn't
true?". you wanna thump your chest and yell "mine is bigger than yours!"....better
get out your ruller first...........
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