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"apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 20th, 2009, 7:32 pm
by flamesbball84
http://blog.laptopmag.com/mac-tax-repea ... priced-pcs
You be the judge. I'd still spring for the Samsung for the 4GB of RAM and superior CPU though, I learned my lesson last time when I opted to upgrade other things and just have a so-so CPU and RAM...
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 20th, 2009, 9:24 pm
by Sly Fox
Word on the street is that PC laptops & desktops are about to take another dive due to overproduction estimate for the 4th quarter in relation to demand out side of low end netbooks.
Apple certainly did a clever marketing run to distract folks away from noticing that Windows 7 seriously closes the gap with Apple.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 20th, 2009, 11:47 pm
by flamesbball84
Sly Fox wrote:Word on the street is that PC laptops & desktops are about to take another dive due to overproduction estimate for the 4th quarter in relation to demand out side of low end netbooks.
Apple certainly did a clever marketing run to distract folks away from noticing that Windows 7 seriously closes the gap with Apple.
Windows 7 is pretty awesome. Been running the release candidate for quite a while now. Other than the mysterious blue screen of death I was getting off and on for 3 days last week (don't know what happened there, didn't install anything to screw it up, not even windows updates and it just stopped doing it all on its own) it has worked like a charm.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 20th, 2009, 11:55 pm
by SuperJon
I got a MacBook Pro last week. It is by far the best computer I've ever had.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 8:57 am
by Rocketfan
Im seriously debating on getting that new 27inch iMAC....
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 9:07 am
by Sly Fox
SuperJon wrote:I got a MacBook Pro last week. It is by far the best computer I've ever had.
You could save some coin if you waited another week ... but you had no way of knowing that. I'm jealous. I was about to buy one myself when this whole layoff deal occurred.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 9:08 am
by SuperJon
I didn't buy it. That's what makes it even better.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 10:41 am
by Sly Fox
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 11:10 am
by RubberMallet
our developer bought a mac desktop here about 3 months ago. but he runs windows on it. 6 gigs of ram...lol.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 4:22 pm
by flamesbball84
RubberMallet wrote:our developer bought a mac desktop here about 3 months ago. but he runs windows on it. 6 gigs of ram...lol.
does he always run windows on it or does he operate in OSX any?
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 4:49 pm
by RubberMallet
only for testing and developing for macs in our network environment.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 10:11 pm
by Sly Fox
El Scorcho is demonstrating an unusual amount of self control not posting in this thread.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 21st, 2009, 10:21 pm
by LUconn
I think he's given up on the internet. No blog, no twitter, no facebook, no flamefans and I'm sure there's others.
Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?
Posted: October 25th, 2009, 10:51 pm
by El Scorcho
LUconn wrote:I think he's given up on the internet. No blog, no twitter, no facebook, no flamefans and I'm sure there's others.
Yeah. Internet. Meh.
