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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."
Like Mac OS X.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I have a battery, you ignorant clod!
doesn't save the screen, which is more likely to be damaged, since, with a laptop, power management will spin down the hd much of the time. Also, you can buy laptop hds that come with a motion sensor and will self-park, so this is no longer a "premium", but a standard feature.
Why? Are you typing a murder mystery while under the covers? oh, right - surfing pr0n!
Sounds like the most common point of failure is the user. Maybe a "don't drop me" sticker would help?
For this end-user, premium means gobs of disk space, cpu, screen, ram, and decent battery life. For under a grand, I've got twin 320gig hds, 17" screen, full-sized keyboard, 4 gigs ram, dual core 64-bit cpu and decent (a couple of hours with everything running) battery life. And those self-parking-when-you-drop-me drives.
It's usually thrown in a pull-behind, along with camcorder, charges, extra batteries, tripod, cabling and media, etc (It's my video-production-studio-in-a-box).
Just saying that "premium" is entirely in the eye of the beholder. I was willing to pay a premium for a bigger keyboard and space for a second hard drive. I can buy 3 x 17" laptops for less than the cheapest 17" mac laptop. for others, the mac might be a better deal, but not for me, and I suspect not for many in this crowd.