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Telling Fact From Fantasy In the World of Apple Rumors

Posted by timothy on from the step-one-make-sure-you're-awake dept.

Harry writes "In recent years, fact-based reporting about Apple and its products has been almost completely overwhelmed by gossip, predictions, and speculation — an amazing percentage of which is embarrassingly wrong. I've put together a guide to figuring out which scuttlebutt is almost certainly fiction, and which has a shot at jibing with reality."

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  1. Fantasy: Apple computers aren't overpriced by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-)

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    1. Re:Fantasy: Apple computers aren't overpriced by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I would suggest that you price any other companies computer Spec for Spec It doesn't matter if you think the spec is important to you or not. (including Size, Weight, Dimensions, Video Camera,Keyboard type...), in general try to custom build the Mac Model. You will find the price of the Mac, will be about the same price as the competitors.
      That said. Apple has a limited line and there are a lot of gaps for what people want in a computer, So the Apple may not be the best value for them. But as for its price their prices are competitive. (Don't include home built boxes, as you rarely add your labor to the price, and you pay for just the parts)

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    2. Re:Fantasy: Apple computers aren't overpriced by risinganger · · Score: 2, Insightful

      imo there is a certain amount of truth to that but generally only at a products release or update. Apple don't tend to change prices unlike many others (take Dell for example), so while I tend to agree that the cost difference between different companies isn't great, it does tend to grow in favour of other companies the longer Apple leaves a product update.

    3. Re:Fantasy: Apple computers aren't overpriced by Lars+T. · · Score: 4, Insightful

      imo there is a certain amount of truth to that but generally only at a products release or update. Apple don't tend to change prices unlike many others (take Dell for example)

      Of course the times Apple has lowered prices, people were in a rage that they did (because they "just" bought one 2 months ago).

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    4. Re:Fantasy: Apple computers aren't overpriced by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I would suggest that you price any other companies computer Spec for Spec It doesn't matter if you think the spec is important to you or not. (including Size, Weight, Dimensions, Video Camera,Keyboard type...), in general try to custom build the Mac Model. You will find the price of the Mac, will be about the same price as the competitors.

      Of course, this places disproportionate value on certain things that are very uncommon outside of Apple. Like, for example, form factor.

      However, for example, if all you want is a minimum buy-in point, then a PCs with roughly twice the hardware resources of a Mac Mini costs only a bit more than half as much, and a PC with only marginally less power than an 8-core Mac Pro costs _less_ than half as much.

      If your primary interest is in what the computer does, rather than what it looks like, then nearly all desktop Macs are embarassingly overpriced (the laptops are harder to call).

    5. Re:Fantasy: Apple computers aren't overpriced by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Insightful

      For example, Take a look at the base 24" iMac. [ ... ]

      Nobody bloody cares. People who want a Mac get a Mac, people who want something else get something else. It's all out there in the stores. Nobody's forcing anyone.

      And Sony laptops are overpriced too. It's a scandal. What's the government doing about it ?

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  2. Just compare against this handy list by Xest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple products overview
    =======================
    Pros:
    - It looks cool
    - It sounds cool
    - It probably smells cool
    - It probably even tastes cool

    Cons:
    - It's expensive
    - It lacks features initially

    Any rumour about an Apple product where the details of the rumour fall outside this list is false.

  3. Missing: If Rob Enderle says it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...it's wrong.

  4. Forgot the most important one by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Any rumour about Apple opening up OS/X for use on generic PCs, is ALWAYS false.

    Wanting will not make it so. Repeat after me:
    Apple is a hardware company.
    Apple is a hardware company.
    Apple is a hardware company.
    Apple is a hardware company.

    Keep repeating until you figure out why they will not sell you OS/X for your white box PC.

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  5. Re:Sometimes the truth sucks by necro81 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Outside of OS X what we have is cutting edge cases: packaging. Apple is the mastery of packaging and marketing

    you say that like it's nothing?