Its an age old debate. Generally Macs are pretty close in price to PCs with similar hardware options. The trick is Apple doesn't sell stripped down low end hardware or 101 combinations of various options. So the common complaint folks have is when they try to compare to some bargain basement computer that lacks many of the mac's features. Some features that are often missed on laptops are backlit keys, built-in webcam, digital audio in and out, 3 second wake/sleep time, magsafe power connector, highly recyclable low poison construction, firewire, 73 watthour battery, Wireless 802.11N and multi-touch trackpad. Not all of these features (and this is just off the top of my head) will be useful to all people but generally it's all best of class. For example, you have to check the fine print on some Dell laptops to find out that the 802.11N wireless network is an optional upgrade, not standard and the higher capacity 74 watt hour battery is also an optional upgrade. Throw in the rock-solid OSX with the great iLife apps and Front Row and it gets much harder to compare. Some would also argue that VO is a superior screen reader both in quality of annunciation and navigation model, not to mention price.
So in the end, you've got some top-end hardware that stacks up pretty well against the PCs and the harder to compare high-quality apps bundled and it makes for a compelling system. Throw in the vagaries of security, viruses and spyware and the Mac sounds like an oasis of pulchritude. For most Mac users it works out to more time doing stuff and less time fiddling with the tool. It's a sharper safer and more durable knife. CB Scott Howell wrote: > There are reviews, you can get larger drives, but generally that > requires you order it from the online store, but it may be your local > store will upgrade the drive, check with them, and you can't really > compare the cost of a Mac with a PC. Your talking apples and oranges, > ha ha. The Mac in many cases provides not only higher quality > hardware, but more innovative technologies in each of their machines. > In other words, your getting what you paid for unlike with PCs where > you tend to get slower and lesser quality hardware from my experience. > On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:05 AM, a radix wrote: > >> Hello everyone, Sorry for the flooding with post I have been doing >> but after discovering all of this mac accessibility I am just pretty >> excited sinc eI did not know anything about this before and i love >> learning about new stuff that can 'widen my perspective'. >> >> I have been thinking about buying a macbook pro (if I go mac I want >> to do it well immediately and it seems to be the best choice >> price/performance anyway especially the 2.6mhz model which has >> dedicated video memory which should help when watching movies or tv >> series). To be honest I think macs are rather overpriced though in >> comparison to the competition. I know the screenreader is included >> but I have hal liecenses left so there would be no added cost for me >> anyway. Here is to hoping that the apple store will have some kind of >> action when i buy one. Does anyone know if you can have the store >> replace the hd with a 500 gb 7200rpm variant? >> >> Are there any reviews of the new model macbook pro? Google didnt show >> up that many of them. >> >> Thanks in advance for the information, >> >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
