levin70

Points Off for Windows? Assailing the 'Macs Are More Expensive' Assumption

What's the point? That more Apple builds a better expensive PC? Great - you do realize that the bulk of sales by HP and Dell, on the PC side are cheap laptops and desktops? How many Mac models are there at $400 price point? That would be none. When an IT Director needs to roll out 2,000 new desktops to the drones, you think he tells his managers to go spec $1500 machines? Nope, they go to dell and HP and spec $400 machines.

In addition

I can go buy the PC components and build an equivalent machine for approx half what HP and Dell charge. Can I do that with a Mac?

Nope, can't. So in reality for the savvy buyer, I can still pay less than half for a PC that I can for a Mac.

Go look to the gaming world - where the best computer minds are - and ask how many run macs - the answer will be pretty much none of them.

When I was a kid back in the late 70's my first machine was an Apple II. In 1984 I got a Mac. In college I used an upgraded Mac Plus. Upon leaving college I never used a mac again. There was a reason for that

Apple will do just fine building machines for lazy people who are willing to spend more money for ease of use. They will never penetrate the mass market because they can't match the price points. Thats not a bad thing, as the mass market cares little for look and feel and only cares for price point.

However, don't try to build an investment thesis thinking that somehow mac will someday gain more than that 5-7% marketshare. That's the part of the world willing to pay a premium for a premium product (that has only 3% of the software base). No more no less

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