Pangur Bán;11351281 said:I know you can buy a Lenovo with the same specs for a third of the price or less than a mac book,
No you can't, a $2k Lenovo is roughly on par with a $3k Apple, and the price difference decreases on lower end models.
In some cases Apple might have a slight quality advantage, but nothing that justifies the price.
Well, I think most people buy Macs for the wrong reasons. I use a Mac for my Unix-based development because Mac OS is better than Windows for that, Linux interfaces are ass-ugly, and my development computers are either provided by work or written off as a business expense.
Apple products are for idiots. That's what makes them so great.
There isn't much evidence to back this up. If you watch people who have no computer experience, they fail equally miserably on any computer product.
$104/share in cash is nice. Apple's operational expertise is the best in class. As Integral said, their supply chain management means they don't have large profit sapping inventory. In 2010, HTC couldn't buy enough screens because Apple pre-paid their manufacturers for the iPhone 4. Same for high end drills for iPad 2.
Question is whether they can continue to be revolutionary rather just evolutionary?
Apple fronts a lot of capital for new product development though, so in a lot of cases, if they hadn't pre-paid for 6 months worth of supply, supply would be delayed for that timeframe before being available anyway.
I think Apple is making a conscious effort to move to being evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Moving to their PC naming system for the ipad (new models released regularly, same name) is part of this. PC manufacturers dreamed of selling PCs by model year rather than specs, over a decade ago, but were never able to pull it off like Apple is doing.
@Hygro: honestly I'm not a fan of Apple's keyboards, either the desktop or laptop versions. Lenovo keyboards are physically a joy to use while chiclet keyboards are just awkward.
Yeah, other than their laptop trackpads and bluetooth trackpad, Apple input devices are really not very good.
I find Mac's obnoxious to use, the interface really gets in the way of what I want to do.
Yeah, this is just a matter of familiarity. I use Windows and Mac OS about equally, and my workflow and productivity is very similar between the two, with each OS having a handful of features I wish the other would implement.
Except for the harddrive browsing. That's one thing Apple sucks at.
I use muCommander.
I hated this keyboard for the first couple months. Once I got used to it, that's when it got awesome.
Well, I'm spoiled, but Mac keyboards suck for not being like mine:
You guys simply don't comprehend what you're missing out on.
I don't prefer to keep programs going, when I close out, I want them gone (I'm very RAM conscience, better for my gaming).
You need to put more RAM in your computer.
I'm interested to see what their plans are in the low margin tv business. Content? Streamlined devices? Should be interesting.
I'm curious too - Microsoft recently backburnered a pretty big effort to make a push into similar territory because the content owners wouldn't play along.
Apple has cultivated a myth of technological superiority, but it's really superiority in terms of interfacing. I've yet to find an mp3 player I enjoy more than an ipod touch. It's just so brilliantly laid out -- so much so that for no other reason than the mp3 player function, I'd buy an iphone.
my ipod is awesome, as is itunes. I don't know of any other company that can really touch Apple in the music distribution market. Their innovations with music downloading have been revolutionary.
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As well as all the regular itunes stuff, you can also pay $10/m and get unlimited streaming/downloading (as long as you keep paying) on your phone/PC/xbox. I'm surprised Apple hasn't implemented something similar yet.