"apple tax" scaled back a lot?

"apple tax" scaled back a lot?#280112

By flamesbball84 - October 20th, 2009, 7:32 pm

- October 20th, 2009, 7:32 pm #280112

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?#280127

By Sly Fox - October 20th, 2009, 9:24 pm

- October 20th, 2009, 9:24 pm #280127

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?#280137

By flamesbball84 - October 20th, 2009, 11:47 pm

- October 20th, 2009, 11:47 pm #280137

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?#280138

By SuperJon - October 20th, 2009, 11:55 pm

- October 20th, 2009, 11:55 pm #280138

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?#280150

By Rocketfan - October 21st, 2009, 8:57 am

- October 21st, 2009, 8:57 am #280150

Im seriously debating on getting that new 27inch iMAC....

From Bill Simmons:

See " The Sneeze" time stamp - 7:45

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... ons/090903

Re: "apple tax" scaled back a lot?#280152

By Sly Fox - October 21st, 2009, 9:07 am

- October 21st, 2009, 9:07 am #280152

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.