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That's a lot of net profit into their pocket, for each unit. You should never price things based solely on how much the inputs cost. If people are willing to p
by MartinCron 14y ago
That's a lot of net profit into their pocket, for each unit.
You should never price things based solely on how much the inputs cost. If people are willing to pay huge premiums for incremental RAM upgrades, Apple will gladly let them.
- jaems33 14y agoIn this case though, there are few alternatives. Even if the RAM upgrade was $400, I'd still buy it because the RAM is soldered and so I wouldn't be able to upgrade it myself.
- ctdonath 14y agoPaying 10% more for "better done right without further hassle on my part" is worth a lot to many customers.
- wlesieutre 14y agoWhich is fine and dandy, but "Pay 100% more for 'there's no other way to get a RAM upgrade'" is a pretty crappy deal.
- MartinCron 14y agoIt absolutely IS a crappy deal, but it's the only deal you're going to get unless you're willing to consider an alternative product. You can always stick the cheap ram in your clunky Dell laptop.
- pyre 14y ago> your *clunky* Dell laptop Careful, there. Your bias is showing.
- astrodust 14y agoIf Dell comes up with something as refined as the MacBook Air in the next few years, I'll be truly surprised. HP has been working towards making better products through better design. Sony keeps working on creating these crazy, over-styled products, but they are different. Dell seems to be cranking out the same basic thing.
- mkr-hn 14y agoThose aren't the only companies making Windows-based PCs. I use a Toshiba laptop.
- astrodust 14y agoThey're the only companies actually working to engineer a better PC laptop. The rest are just making lazy imitations. Clunky, plastic, full of removable parts that tend to be loose, basically exactly what you get when you make incremental improvements to a 1990-vintage design.
- MartinCron 14y agoI use a Dell laptop every day. I really enjoy it. Competent and well-built machine. Good value, all that. If I put it next to my wife's MacBook Pro, well, the only word for it is "clunky". Put a reasonably handsome man next to George Clooney and he'll look clunky, too.
- pyre 14y agoThe idea that your choice is between a "clunky Dell" and an "elegant Apple" (a false dichotomy) shows an Apple bias to me. Sort of like the way that Free Software advocates have spent a decade or so referring to Microsoft as M$ (or Windows as WinBlows).
- MartinCron 14y agoOK. You win. If loving Apple is wrong, I don't want to be right.
- msutherl 14y agoSome things can be judged to be better than other things.
- pyre 14y agoThough 'clunky' may be an accurately descriptive adjective, I've heard/read the phrase "clunky [Dell | PC]" often enough that it seems to be a meme, similar to the usage of the term "beige box" to refer to PCs on Apple forums starting around the advent of colorful iMacs / clamshell iBooks (and falling off in recent years).
- abalashov 14y agoI just got a new Asus 13" laptop and personally find it to kick the crap out of a MacBook aesthetically, even when viewed side-by-side. :-) Of course, they have also made it somewhat shamelessly MacBook like in certain respects: large touchpad, calculator-style keyboard...
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- shawnc 14y agoReally, then don't buy it and opt for a machine you can upgrade. I agree, having the freedom to upgrade is nice, if you feel you'll need to. And doing it on your own, and saving money is nice. From a warranty and support perspective - not letting people tinker with it makes it a LOT easier.
- nirvdrum 14y agoTrue, but it makes repairs quite a bit more expensive. I have to believe it costs Apple more money to swap out an entire logic board. I know it costs the consumer more when they get slapped with bill.
- samstave 14y agoWilling is not the same as having no other choice.
- meepmorp 14y ago> Willing is not the same as having no other choice. But you do have a choice. Apple still makes the older MBP design with greater upgradeability. The tradeoff, though, is that if you want the sexy screen, you give up the upgrade options.