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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I've said it before and I'll keep in saying it: price matters to most people. Sure, this laptop isn't cutting edge, and I doubt 2.5 hours of battery life is considered "long" by most people, but the Mac "option" is for them to spend $2499 USD. Someone comes into a store with a $700 budget, and the Apple "answer" is "Come back in a few months after you've saved up your money". Does anyone really consider that a good option?
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Okay. If you're gonna play the broken record game, so will I...
The impression created by the commercials is that the Macs they pass on are similarly specced to the machines they end up buying and only differ in price. That's obviously not the case. In this case, that $2499 Mac is infinitely more powerful than the 8 lb piece of plastic they bought.
That doesn't mean that 8 lb piece of plastic doesn't suit every need they have in a computer, nor does it mean that the Mac would've done so any better. It does however, strike me as at least slightly disingenuous to compare a $600 HP to a $2500 Mac. If they were all the same, HP wouldn't sell high end $2500 machines either, which they do.
Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, those who buy
anything solely based on price deserve what they get.