blogs.zdnet.com — pple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple?s Mac?despite a lot of focus on the iPhone?will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the Mac will make the quarter. Memory prices were weak during the March quarter and
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cc440Apr 24, 2008
I truly believe that a good 5-10% of the cost of a Mac is the build quality. I know 10-15 people who run Apple computers and laptops that are 5+ years old as daily use machines and these computers still work and mostly look brand new. A 2 year old HP is most likely falling apart with missing keys, a bloated XP registry that makes it run slow as hell, and a dated design. Apple computers are a long term investment that will last you until you are truly ready to buy something new instead of forcing you to buy a new computer after the old one falls to s**t in 3-4 years. A cheaper Apple would compromise severly on these qualities and horribly damage Apples image when those cheap machines start breaking and falling apart in ayear or two. The internals of both a $1300 HP and a $1400 Apple may be the same but it is the build quality and longevity that you pay the extra $100 for.
waulokApr 24, 2008
It's all about the Pentiums, baby.
Closed AccountApr 24, 2008
Simple Apple pushes costs and tries to accrue them throughout the year. They never show their expenses for 1 quarter. Common accounting tricks.
cthellisApr 24, 2008
You must make your therapist very happy.
shank2001Apr 25, 2008
Actually try to build an equivalent Xeon workstation using two 2.8GHz E5462 chips and 2gb of FBDIMMs with the features of the Mac pro for less then $2,800... I dare you! Dell can't come close. HP cant come close. Even built yourself off of parts from newegg can't come close. Shoot the Xeon processors alone are $1700 dollars!! The Mac Pro is a STEAL for a 8 core Xeon workstation! Sure Apple makes no cheap PCs, but for what you get, it is quite a deal... especially the Mac Pro towers!
shank2001Apr 25, 2008
Yep, I bought my Mac Pro primarily as a Vista 64 machine with 8 cores (it is actually a GREAT deal for an 8 core Xeon workstation for $2,800!) But I am getting more and more impressed with MacOSX
shank2001Apr 25, 2008
I'd like to see the power pc last as long as the Xeons in my Mac Pro. For one thing I dont need liquid cooliing for my Mac Pro, and yet it still runs cool and pretty much silent, and about 4 times faster as well! Switching to Intel was the best thing Apple ever did, and allowed me to get a great deal on a computer to run Windows AND OS X on! THank you Apple!!!
applemacstudApr 25, 2008
Not anymore!
monkeyfartsApr 26, 2008
Okay... I was with you as far as comparing the price of the Mac Pro vs. an HP or a Dell, because you're right there. But buying from Newegg? Dude, if you build your own system, you will always save money over buying it pre-built, retail. Plus, you over-priced the Xeon by $1000. Yes, $1000. Here's the 2.83 GHz quad core Xeon processor at Newegg, going for $700, not $1700:<a class="user" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117143">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...</a>Get two of those and you have $1400 for the Xeons. That leaves you with, going by your $2800 estimate for the Mac Pro, another $1400 of breathing room. That's way more than you need to build an equivalently-specced machine to build on your own. Plus, you'll actually be able to include a monitor and still come below that price point.If you're going to make an argument, please make sure that you aren't full of s**t first. Thanks.
mrbitchApr 28, 2008
That's exactly what I did (I have a Nov 2006 MacBook Pro). I bought a WD Passport USB 320 GB SATA drive, backed up my internal OSX and BootCamp partitions, and then swapped out the internal HD for the 320 GB WD drive.