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Re: Macbook!!!

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Thats my point, Apple is not just another company selling computers and laptops and MP3 players - their focus is not on technology and innovation, its on your wallet!
Yes, apple is guilty of keeping their software and hardware propietary, but are they any worse than the likes of Sony. Sony has a long history of keeping propietary formats which are closed off to the rest of the manufacturers. Look at UMD, MiniDisk, BlueRay, they are all closed formats! The only difference is that Apple does it with their hardware, Apple's focus is on controlling every aspect of their computers and Ipods. For years they have controlled everything about what parts go into their products and how they are designed, and function. This is what has given Apple it title of being the 'high end' computer manufacturer. It is also what has limited their growth to a very small market share, and no were close to the profitability of the likes of Dell. If you wana talk about a comany who'se focous is on profitability look at the PC manufacturers who have used the model for years where parts come from a multitude of different companies and seem to work together, but never seem to work perfectly together. Apple was a struggling comany untill the ipod came around, they have never made much off their macintosh buisness.

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
When you walk into an Apple store and hand the Apple saleman $1200 for a computer, when you could get something better for $600, the he knows he has you!
You talk about how you can get a similar computer from another company for half the price, but every time someone shows me one of them, they either use a lower processor, and terrible poor resolution (cheep) screen, worse graphics etc. Show me a computer which has very similar specs for half the price of a mac and I will believe you. To date I have only seen ones (dell's) which are off by $100 or so (Which I am very willing to pay for a much better designed/built computer which runs OSX).

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