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Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets
nk497 writes "When Paul Otellini announced Ultrabooks last year, he predicted they would grab 40% of the laptop market by this year. One analyst firm has said Ultrabooks will only make up 5% of the market this year, slashing its own sales predictions from 22m this year to 10.3m. However, IHS iSuppli said that Ultrabooks have a chance at success if manufacturers get prices down between $600 to $700 — a discount of as much as $400 on the average selling price of the devices — and they could still grab a third of the laptop market by 2016."
Mac Pro are competitive for the money too
that one depends a lot on what you WANT.
simply doing a line item comparison of what the macbook pro COMES WITH yields a competitively priced unit if you spec a computer with the same specs... but if you WANT anything else, its a complete rip off.
Me, I want a tower PC with a fast i7 and a middling-high end video card, SSD primary, spinning drive secondary, blu-ray, sd card, bluetooth, wifi, gigabit, 16GB RAM.
And I built one for ~$1800 or so.
I can't get a mac pro that suits my needs for anything near that. I can get a mac pro that comes with an extra expensive cpu I don't need or want instead of the video card i do need and want. We can talk all day about how that extra cpu is priced competitively... but i don't need that cpu i need a video card... for example. So if I build a PC to my specs, and then say, what would a mac version cost, it would be a LOT MORE and it would still be missing things.