It blows my mind that people are still buying a Dell or HP over Apple.
If you use(d) your laptop just for web browsing yea. Anything else forget it. Laptops are still king for just about everything else.
It blows my mind that people are still buying a Dell or HP over Apple.
If you use(d) your laptop just for web browsing yea. Anything else forget it. Laptops are still king for just about everything else.
How about gaming? Macs aren't the best option. It's naive to think otherwise.
Apple doesn't sell the most computers. They make the best computers though. Period. The best things in life aren't cheap.
Why is Lenovo surging?
I must really live in a bubble. The number of Apple laptops I see around me on a daily basis makes them seem dominant. Maybe my shareholder eyes are just really good at picking them out of a crowd.
Definitely for me ... I've been waiting for a 15" Haswell rMBP since May.This has nothing to do with people delaying purchases until the new Haswell-equipped models drop?
i just dont see the point of buying something twice the price with half the speed and half the connectivity..
The are several issues but I'm not surprised by this at all.
Tablets are massively cannibalising laptops, they are cheap, reliable, instant on, small and have all the connectivity (wifi-3G) and apps you could ever need.
Apple has outperformed the trends for so long it's due some retraction of it's market especially as they are at the end of a product cycle with no sign of reducing Pro prices having just created another 'higher' tier with the retina mac.
Sad but true the Retina is over priced and unsuitable for the market.
Apple needs to offer 1-2TB drives at the same price as the current 15 inch pro, flash or not. Apples should just forego the cost of the flash drives and crush that price point right down.
The people in the market for a high end laptop for pro creative activities such as Video, Music, 3D, Graphics etc couldn't care less about retina or thin.
If Apple don't update the current mac pro this time round a lot of die hard fans are going to be pissed. The retina is overpriced and less capable.
Apple should massively drop the price if they don't update the non-retina.
There will be a huge gap without it there![]()
since apple no longer allows upgrades of their machines and the parts they use inside are more or less bottom of the barrel (cheap ram, slow ssds, nics that dont support jumbo frames, some laptops dont even have lan anymore which is useless for large file transfers, no wifi AC until just now)
i got a lenovo y580 instead, for half the price of the retina macbook ($1279) i got the following
Intel i7 3630
15.6" 1920x1080 with 97% color gamut
16GB Corsair vengeance (upgraded)
512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD (one of the fastest ssds you can buy)
256GB Samsung mSATA (for OS)
Bluray burner (optional HDD bracket option for tripple SSDs)
nVidia GTX660M 2GB ram
Intel 6205 2x2 AGN (but this laptop allows me to upgrade to any wifi card i want, so once intel comes out with an AC card i can just upgrade it for not much more than $20, i dont have to buy a whole new laptop)
i just dont see the point of buying something twice the price with half the speed and half the connectivity.
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thats strange, they dont make computers at all, Hon hai makes all the computers, the same company that makes HP's computers (more of their business line than consumer).
I think it has to do with people waiting for a Macbook Pro with Haswell. I've seen some articles that say to people that they should wait.
Also I think that iPad made a major impact on Macbook sales, because most people aren't tech savvy and all they need is just basic things that all can be accomplished on tablet. My mom bought iPad instead of a notebook. All she does is watches shows on youtube and browsing the web. She doesn't need more. It is just here all we talk about is specs because of of people here are tech savvy, but in reality most people wont have any idea what specs are.
The are several issues but I'm not surprised by this at all.
Tablets are massively cannibalising laptops, they are cheap, reliable, instant on, small and have all the connectivity (wifi-3G) and apps you could ever need.
Apple has outperformed the trends for so long it's due some retraction of it's market especially as they are at the end of a product cycle with no sign of reducing Pro prices having just created another 'higher' tier with the retina mac.
Sad but true the Retina is over priced and unsuitable for the market.
Apple needs to offer 1-2TB drives at the same price as the current 15 inch pro, flash or not. Apples should just forego the cost of the flash drives and crush that price point right down.
The people in the market for a high end laptop for pro creative activities such as Video, Music, 3D, Graphics etc couldn't care less about retina or thin.
If Apple don't update the current mac pro this time round a lot of die hard fans are going to be pissed. The retina is overpriced and less capable.
Apple should massively drop the price if they don't update the non-retina.
There will be a huge gap without it there![]()
Dooooooooooooooommmmmmmed!!!
Same here. I bought my mother an iPad 2 a while ago and she loves it. Perfect for looking at email, photos of grandchild, surfing the web, etc. I doubt she has updated the iOS since she got it and I doubt she will. The amazing thing to me is despite the fact that she's totally technologically illiterate, she's so comfortable using the iPad. She doesn't even use a cell phone.