in what world are mac books competativly priced?
Compare other premium notebooks to the MacBook.
do I really have to explain this in such little baby steps for you.
Yes, compared to other *premium* notepads/notbooks/laptops etc the mac book pro IS competitively prices.
for example to top end of [insert other suppler here] range is prices around the same as a mac book pro.
BUT, the mac book pro, in general appears to have slower processor/less/ram/worse GPU. -and if you're truly honest, still has less possible applications (though how much that affects you does depend on what you're doing).
to just say that it's priced the same as other high end laptops is silly.
it's extraordinarily well priced (as the top of the range) when compared to a top of the range car (which has a much more basic computer. or a top of the line champagne...
but those comparisons are meaningless, all that matters is how much bang for your buck you're getting. and it's still the case that you get more when buying a PC.
This whole thread is about the fact that Apple have just stuck a midrange GPU into the new macbook pro.
it's meant to be their top of the line, meant to be their showing everyone how much at the bleeding edge of design and innovation they are. so why the only par graphics card? -yet still the price tag of a box stuffed with the latest and greatest.
(and yes it was a mac book pro, not just the standard mac book).
the trouble was the atom processor.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The MacBook Pro never came with an Intel Atom processor. That alone dismisses your whole argument. Especially when my 2007 MacBook Pro still runs everything with relative ease.
no. that was an editing/proof reading fail.
I had written a much longer more rambling post, and didn't quite edit all of it out. -edited it now, does that make you happy?
the fact still stands.
I said at the start of the post I didn't own a mac at all.
I quoted directly what had been told me by a friend whom I trust.
(even if I had meant to write that it wouldn't have dismissed an anecdotal argument).
he bought a mac book pro. when it first arrived he absolutely loved it. but soon found that it just wasn't good enough. in his exact words the processor wasn't up to it. when he was using skype the processor usage was sitting at 80-90% leaving practically nothing to do anything else.
you can accuse me of being Anti-Mac if you like.
but the guy who I got the information from to form this opinion isn't, he bought a Mac to start with, found out that it was woefully under powered and upgraded it to the current mac book air.
that said, an alternative experience could be gathered from my house mate, who has a mac book. or my ex, who also has a mac book.
both of them have the older gen mac book (white plastic). both of them love it. it does what they want, and they work in the way that it wants them to.
so perhaps if you're a standard user you can have a mac book and everything is great, for a few years or more even.
but that doesn't change the fact that if you are a pro user (like my friend is), who wants to run a lot of apps, or a lot of possibly resource intensive apps then the macbook pro possibly isn't for you.
and yes I find it laughable that his reasonably current macbook pro couldn't use safari and skype (with video) at the same time, because even the most basic PC can do that. (perhaps that's an exaggeration, but if it is, it's his exaggeration, I'm just repeating it verbatim)
perhaps you use your mac the same as my house-mate uses his. (e.g not intensively), perhaps you're happy with it. it doesn't change the fact that I know someone who wasn't happy with a mac, (yet at the same time still liked the brand and still bought another mac to replace it).
Telling me I have "absolutely no idea" what I'm talking about is just a little silly.
it also doesn't change the fact that this thread is about people saying that
putting substandard hardware in the box is silly (especially given the price tag)
substandard hardware doesn't justify a premium price tag.
you don't have to be Einstein to figure that out,
especially since I can read the specs myself and form an opinion about the hardware
Bear in mind one more thing. my opinion on the cost of the hardware is based on the GBP (sterling prices).
it seems that nobody at apple knows how to use a currency converter.
so if the new mac book might cost $1200 in the states, it'll cost £1200 in the UK (despite the fact that $1200 = £735).
