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Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa
Barence writes "More than eight out of ten Mac owners also own a PC, according to a new piece of research. The NPD survey found that 12% of US computer-owning households have a Mac. However, 85% of those also own a Windows PC, suggesting that the Mac/PC divide is nowhere near as clear cut as both Apple and Microsoft suggest. Mac owners are also far more likely to have multiple computers in the house. Two thirds of Mac owners have three or more computers in the home, while only 29% of PC owners have two or more PCs."
Apple fanbois are really sensitive: does it hurt so much when I say that a Mac is the same thing as a PC? Usually you guys wait a day or two to start modding comments you dislike (the ones that dare to offend the Holy Apple), but apparently, some of you just couldn't resist the temptation.
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Dell offers a tiny desktop that if you configure with the same options as Apple's Mac's it will cost more. Same with HP all in ones.
Reason Mac's cost more is that even the imac's and minis all use the same laptop components as the macbook's
with PC's you can buy desktop parts which will give you more performance at a lot less cost
Not that I like to feed trolls, but I thought I'd read this particular diatribe before:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20122733357&sid=1
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25775362
http://kottke.org/98/11/ (wow! from 1998!)
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.634488.12
and a bunch more...Google has a lot:
http://www.google.com/search?q=From+a+productivity+standpoint%2C+I+don%27t+get+how+people+can+claim+that+the+Macintosh+is+a+superior+machine.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
So the $700 cost savings (per your numbers) would save that person from being homeless if they lost their job? If $700 is all it takes to make that person homeless they shouldn't be buying ANY computer in the first place.
There's WAY too many assumptions in your hypothesis's.
there FTFY
Oh...and *WHOOSH*
My tongue was firmly in cheek when I penned that response despite sharing the OP sentiments.
BTW
How does one submit a comment and then mod replies to oblivion?
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Indeed. I've got nothing against Macs. I own one, and have another PC hacked to run OS X (and I also have an iPod Touch as well). I've also got a Windows desktop and Windows laptop though. I just find Mac's overpriced for what you normally get.
When I went to get my laptop for example: all I wanted with something that I could take with me. Anything with a usable processor, ram, hard drive, and wireless connection was fine. No bells and whistles. I got that for $325 from Lenovo. The cheapest Mac notebook starts at $1000. My specs on my notebook were comparable, but specs comparisons aren't even needed for me on a laptop these days. ALL of them have enough power to do what I want. The $325 one fills my needs. I'm sure the $1000 Mac would fill my needs too but why pay the extra to get the same tasks done?
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Nice try retard but thats what I have stated all along if you follow the entire thread. You can read, correct? I doubt it because the fact that you have failed to read the thread thus far has either shown a lack of literacy or a profound sense of stupidity.
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Good comeback tard bucket. So what did I say then?
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10.3? That's way older than Vista - and yet you chose to ignore the whole "Vista incapable" disaster.
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I'm reasonably certain it's been shown a number of times that if you build a PC with the exact same hardware as a Mac, you'll end up with a PC that costs about the same.
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Jeez, wake up. Macs are more expensive because you're not just getting a grey box with shit software installed. You can an integrated system, both hardware and software, that work great together. You get freedom from viruses. You get the great iLife suite. You get freedom from Winblows and it's old, outdated architecture. You get freedom from spending hours and hours of "maintaining" your system so it will continue running. You get freedom from your machine getting slower and slower as the months pass because Windows is getting bogged down.
Your ridiculous "fanboys" comment coupled with your last sentence shows that the real person that has got bent over was you. You bend over and take all the annoyances with a Windows box and keep coming back for more. The Mac lovers made a conscious choice to leave that world of shit behind, and you seem to willingly come back to it. One could make the argument that you are the lemming in this discussion. ..