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Why are apple pcs more expensive than other brands (eg.dell)?

  • 16-05-2009 7:57pm
    #1
    stainluss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭


    For similar spec. you can be looking at a few hundred in the difference?
    (they should be cheaper, OSX is less common than Windows!)

    Whats so great about them?

    Is there something im missing?:confused:


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  • #2
    StopNotWorking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭StopNotWorking


    Could you give an example?

    The cheapest laptop compares decently to anything else around the 1k mark and at the same time offer sturdier construction and a better standard graphics processor. The imacs selling points are the fact its an all-in-one.

    If you could give a specific example I could go on for hours for you though! What particular machine were you looking at in general?


  • #3
    O'Coonassa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭O'Coonassa


    stainluss wrote: »
    Whats so great about them?

    Historically it has been 'design' and the fact that Macs ran some important software that PC's didn't. Macs have been slick whilst IBM clones/PC's have been ugly beige boxes made from a mix and match of components that weren't specifically designed to work together happily. All this has changed now really though and whatever runs on a Mac is available for the PC. A Mac is still more slick than a PC but no way is it worth the price difference and difference in the cost of ownership IMO.


  • #4
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Because Macs are cool and other laptops are practical?


  • #5
    stainluss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭stainluss


    StopNotWorking wrote: »
    Could you give an example?

    The cheapest laptop compares decently to anything else around the 1k mark and at the same time offer sturdier construction and a better standard graphics processor. The imacs selling points are the fact its an all-in-one.

    If you could give a specific example I could go on for hours for you though! What particular machine were you looking at in general?

    i was looking at some of the laptops on direct laptops website (windows) and comparing thenm to some of the cheapest apple laptops.
    If you write down a certain list of specs (amount of ram, ghz, etc. its is amost guarranteed you could get it much cheaper with a regular non apple than a mac or macbook or any apple model.

    Do you think people are just paying for the brand?


  • #6
    StopNotWorking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭StopNotWorking


    Well on the laptop front its usually the build quality and default graphics processors that sell them off. The cheapest one I can find on laptopsdirect.ie is this:

    http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/Apple_MacBook_MB881B-A/version.asp?PID=774

    It's fairly decent specs but really the only thing that would sell me that is the OS(OSX), the screen and the graphics card. Everything else is decent to sub-par(RAM). That is an old generation mac though, the new ones come in unibody aluminium cases with glass covered screens and fancier touchpads.

    I can find laptops for 200 less that have comparable specs in everything but the graphics card. But at the -1k price range I would be looking for decent performance and staying power. I'm not a mac owner but one thing to note is that there is a very good reason why second hand macs still sell for good money, those machines can last and last(mostly in part to the operating system).


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