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More on Apple: A survey from Mizuho suggests Mac buyers are as loyal as ever. 95% of respondents...
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Monday, June 25, 2012, 1:04 PM ETMore on Apple: A survey from Mizuho suggests Mac buyers are as loyal as ever. 95% of respondents who only owned Macs indicated their next purchase would be a Mac, and the same went for 70% of respondents owning both Windows and Mac machines. Mizuho is slightly lifting its Mac sales estimates as a result, and is also raising its iPad estimates. iPhone estimates are being lowered for the next 2 quarters after checks indicated slowing demand, but a strong holiday season is forecast.
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Sure there are all those windows programs. But they are not really geared to the mobile universe. Think surface is going to compete more with ultrabooks than with iPads.
I expect that you're right about the Surface Pro, the one with the "full" Windows 8. It seems to be a very thin netbook with what may be an inferior keyboard, at least from a user's standpoint. It also apparently MUST have a hard, flat surface to be used with the keyboard, unlike netbooks and laptops. (Many of the iPad cases with built-in keyboards are also rigid, so they don't require a hard, flat surface.)
The new Air is 5X as fast better chip lighter $100 less than
it used to be a way below a tricked out ultrabook.
Why don't you ask the same about Windows laptops? The cost of a Mac laptop is a relatively minor part of college costs, these days. When tuition, alone, at major private universities is $30,000, a $1000 laptop that will be good for 4 years isn't a big investment. Unlike Windows PCs, Macs typically can use the latest OS version for 4-6 years. (When Vista came out, there were currently-selling PCs that couldn't use it.) OS X 10.7 "Lion" requires a Core 2 Duo CPU, which has been in every new Mac since late 2006. Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8, which should be released this fall, will run on almost every Mac made in late 2008 or later (exceptions are the plastic MacBook and the original MacBook Air)--and some earlier Macs, as well.
I interview young people applying to MIT, where I got my three degrees. They all already have laptops, even those who are not especially well off. (MIT's tuition is very high, but so are their grants. They have greatly reduced the average debt of graduating students in the last several years by shifting money from other uses toward grants.) Of course, most didn't get into MIT. (The selection rate this year was about 8%.)