Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market

itwbennett writes "Macs made up a whopping 91 percent of the $1,000-and-up computer market in June. Not so long ago, $1,000 got you an entry-level machine. Today the average computer sells for $701, while the average Windows machine sells for only $515. Still, Macs only make up 8.7% of PC sales. But is that really such a bad position to be in? Consider an Apples to Apples, that is, Macs to iPhones comparison: the iPhone takes only a sliver of the phone market but a much larger share of the profits."

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Re:Premium price, not premium PC

[je ne sais quoi]

Yet another post by an anti-apple person who has obviously never even used a mac on a regular basis. The function keys have an extra meta control that allows you to manually control the screen and keyboard light levels. Speaking as someone who has rebuilt three laptops, I can tell you the single piece aluminum frame has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the number of screws. Maybe it's just me, but I don't expand laptops often enough to worry about the number of screws. On a desktop I could see this being the case, because that could get regularly expanded or upgraded. Strangely enough, to get the cover off on mac desktops you don't have to remove ANY screws, there's a lever that you pull up and you pull the case door off. I have two batteries for my current laptop, and I find it annoying except for maybe two or three times a year. For the amount of time I spend lugging the extra battery around and remembering to swap them out to keep them balanced, it's not worth the trouble.

Macs are great, if you never want to do maintenance or make your own decisions (I realize the irony of that statement).

All three laptops I've rebuilt are macs. Also, all were over five years old when I did it, which should show you another reason why everybody except slashdotters think a mac is a "premium" laptop -- they often do last for five years. Lastly, I even run linux on one of my older mac laptops (still running, built in 1999), from the amount of "my own decisions" that I regularly make running, it's not an advantage, it's a detriment.