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Doing the Math On the New MacBook
Technologizer writes "Apple's new MacBook is a significantly different machine than its predecessor — a slicker laptop at a higher price point. But does it carry a large price premium over similar Windows PCs? I did a painstaking spec-by-spec comparison versus three roughly comparably-configured Windows machines, and came to the conclusion that the value it offers for price paid is not out of whack with the Windows world." The article uses the phrase "Mac tax," which one commenter points out is a recent Microsoft marketing canard.
Why? Because it reveals the ridiculous overpricing of Apple hardware? Yes, how terribly unfair.
What if I install XP SP3, or Linux? Or hey, what if I get it to run OS X? It'd still be cheaper than the Mac with the same spec!
The universities I visit in the UK -- I have not seen a single Mac in them.
Your lack of correct grammatical usage does not lead me to believe that the education in your university is that great.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
And some people still pay extra for old bread in a flashy bag?
'... but look, she's got a new hat!'
fucking mac fanbois.
If you agreed and said "Windows is slow" you would be marked insightful. Don't you value your slashdot karma???
Anyway, Apple sucks so hard that all they can do is try to disparage Windows in their commercials and sing pretty songs instead of pitching their actual product.
You don't use Mac's do you?
That's the first line of defense for the hardcore Mac fanboys, isn't it. Anyone who doesn't love every feature of the Mac or Mac OS, no matter how bad, must be some Windows nutjob who's never actually used a Mac.
My first Mac was the original Mac 128k. The one that was simply "Macintosh" not "Macintosh something". I've also had an SE/30, Performa 475, Powermac 7200, Powermac 7600 (upgraded to a G3), and a real beige G3 I upgraded to a G4/533, I upgraded to a G4 Mac mini as soon as it came out, and I've had a Macbook Pro since THAT first came out.
That "using Macs" enough for you, fanboy?
The Mighty Mouse does NOT have two buttons... it uses a variant of the double-finger-tap technique... but using a capacitance sensor that can't distinguish between a two-finger click and a left-click, so I have to lift my index finger when I want to right-click.
Control-click is uncomfortable, on a keyboard that already causes me physical pain to use extensively. Two-finger-tap on the trackpad tends to lead to my mouse pointer skittering off the target when I right-click.
Apple doesn't need to keep up their idiot fight against the rest of the world. Putting two real buttons won't make people hate them.
Who else does backlit keyboards?
My Thinkpad T23 had an LED installed over the screen that comes on in low-light conditions that provides better illumination of the keyboard than Apple's backlit keyboard does.
Okay, I don't visit Slashdot often enough to single people out.
That's because there aren't any to single out in the first place. It's like conservative wingnuts who rant and rave about the Democrats being socialists, when the wingnut has never actually seen a real, live socialist in his entire life.
The Mac aura is nothing other than the illusionary value that the Mac is supposed to possess over and beyond it's real subjective value, and this aura is what props up the price beyond blah blah blah blah