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By: gordon meacham

gordon meacham — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:21:51 +0000

Apple has maintained certain key pricepoints for the iMac & laptops for about seven years running.

Each and every time they replace a machine it has been with a better one running an ever more stable and full featured OS.

Whether or not a Mac is for you really depends on what you’re planning on doing with it. For the email & browser only crowd, buy a netbook or a nice phone.

In a household full of kids like mine, we’ve bought six macs in the last eight years (new & on eBay), and all of them are still functioning and used daily.

None of my PeeCee using friends can say that, and they’ve definitely spent more per machine per year including extra graphics upgrades, software etc. And that doesn’t include the time they put into troubleshooting or diagnosing random incompatibilities.

By: joe belkin

joe belkin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:16:51 +0000

PC Buyers do not seem to get that Macs are NOT PC’s … Pc buyers only buy on one factor – price. They would switch from an HP to a walgreen’s PC if it saved them $75 … as the NPD data also supports along with this chart – WINPC’s at $1k+ have fallen in marketshare in the last 8 years from 98% to to 34 at retail% Why, because at 66% of PC buyers are unwilling to pay $1k for a machine – for WHATEVER reason. They can range from less income to just not willing to pay more than $299 to $499 for a PC personal computer. That is THEIR choice to make. Macs on the other hand have a few $1k models but the bulk sold? $1,500 and up – why? Of course, to PC buyers, Mac buyers are “stupid,” why pay more than $299 for a computer but just as we ALL value things differently from cars to food, Mac buyers have access to the EXACT same knowledge as PC buyers but choose DIFFERENTLY. Perhaps they value an OS without viruses or trust issues? Perhaps they appreciate knowing there is a store that will answer and fix things for FREE – in some cases 24/7 … that is called VALUE. If HP offered the same one they sold for $1,499, it would be overpriced but Macs are not PC’s in a multitude of ways but it’s sort of like explaining air flight to someone who has never gone on one. It’s DIFFERENT. And it works for Apple – if sales were drastically lower, they would have to call in the analysts – clearly with only another 60 days to go in the quarter – sales are in line with projections.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:54:34 +0000

There was a tag wrapped around my comment, but this comment system seems to dislike fake HTML tags.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:52:59 +0000

OMG.
Call your broker and short AAPL.
If Apple doesn’t drop prices no one will buy their [currently] over-priced [elegant] computers.