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Mass Microsoft Defections to Apple Possible
An anonymous reader writes to mention a MacWorld article covering research by the Forrester group. Their report shows that mass dissatisfaction with Microsoft and its products could lead to defections from the company. From the article: "Over all, only Apple and Tivo saw their brand trust rise in the last two years, according to the report. The final tally saw Bose, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Sony earn the highest marks, while Microsoft, Gateway and LG ranked lowest. The low scores for Microsoft could mean good news for Apple as consumers showed their distrust of the Redmond-based software-giant."
They say that proselytes are the most zealous of all.
Comparing a http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/6404003/wo/8G15tdAjAweN2ApknSDleU3r0 JJ/2.?p=0 to a http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx ?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=E1705FDC&s=dhs&fb=1 (you probably have to re-select the options) yields two computers with similar specs, the dell costs 1669 and the apple costs 2499. I didn't even have to shop around for that and the dell is 66% of the price on the apple.
Aw fuck! That's right! Damn, that extra core probably does cost about 600 dollars more. What value! It's no wonder more people don't buy macs!
They call me the wookie man, I guess that's what I am
I can see the masses switching to macs. Basically becaused the masses are hopless sheep that don't have a clue about computers in the first place. Honestly mac's are for idiots you plug them in and they work no knowledge what so ever. As for me give me a high end personally built pc (that also cost half the price) with linux and cedega for my gameing and I'm good.
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog? entry_id=1457845
Apple has cool products, but I don't know why anyone would trust them any more than other corporate giants, with their teams of aggressive lawyers frothing at the mouth for any chance to litigate.
For instance, I just recently built a custom PC for myself using a 64 bit CPU, a PCI Express video card and 1 gig of ram. Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Video Card, and case only cost me $350. Can't do that with a Mac. Not even the Mac Mini which wouldn't be as powerful. It may be lacking a couple hundred dollars worth of software, but at least I don't pay for the stuff I don't want.
Ditto. I was a mac man through and through, but linux is now at the point where macosx just gets in my way. I bought a very nice new desktop machine that does everything I want for $150US from a local guy who builds machines in his garage. It's worked flawlessly and I know I'll get better follow up service from him than from apple (who still haven't fixed my airport base station 3 years after I sent it in for repair).