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If you are selling anything you want to do repeat business on, lying will make it much harder if not impossible. The best product managers and salespeople I kn
by ajju 17y ago
If you are selling anything you want to do repeat business on, lying will make it much harder if not impossible.
The best product managers and salespeople I know will advocate the hell out of their products but will not lie. I have seen customers ask for product managers by name every time they call to buy a new version or product and sometimes go with a product that has less features than the competition because they know the person they are dealing with is honest.
More to the point of TFA, it is true that Apple's hardware prices are very high. However I have never seen a kernel panic screen on my Mac for the past year that I have used it (really used it).
- tptacek 17y agoWhen we assert Apple's hardware prices are higher than PC prices, we can avoid a long and tedious argument by citing the vendor, configuration, and price that we're pitting against the current Macbook. That would also result in a number (an "Apple tax"), instead of a naked assertion.
- ajju 17y agoWell, personally I believe the higher prices are well worth the cost. Someone I know sums it up best: "Macs cost more only if you value your time at zero". But I agree with your call for specifics. For eg 4 GB DD3 Ram for Macs at Apple is $200 [1] vs at Amazon (random pick) is $78 [2] [1] http://store.apple.com/us/memorymodel/ME_13_2_4_MB http://store.apple.com/us/memorymodel/ME_13_2_4_MB [2] http://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-PC3-10666-1333MHz-240-pin-Channel/dp/B0014BOQ54/ref=sr_1_6/177-1962900-4164623?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1242259584&sr=1-6 http://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-PC3-10666-1333MHz-240-pin-Chan...
- tptacek 17y agoYou're pricing RAM, not systems. If you're going to buy RAM for a Macbook or a PC, you're going to use the same sources and pay the same prices. Nobody who actually buys their own memory buys it from Apple. A Dell Inspiron with the same specs as the white Macbook (with an upgraded hard drive) costs $700 compared to $1100. That's a specific comparison purely on hardware.