Why Apple computers are so damn expensive - Computers, Math ...

pawelk1986 Sea Gull Joined: Apr 03, 2010 Age: 26 Posts: 214 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:53 pm?? ?Post subject: Why Apple computers are so damn expensive Today I was at the mall looking for headphones to my Sony Xperia J I walked around the Apple company store "iSpot" I went there out of curiosity I wanted to see how much they cost Apple laptop I was shocked. I have a asus laptop ( Intel core 2 duo 2,66 Ghz 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA chipset 512 MB) and and decent desktop computer( is quite old but when i bought it was real supercomputer (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66 Ghz 4 GB RAM i added 2 GB extra so now is 6 GB RAM 512MB NVIDIA GT (i get it in replacement for my Galaxy 9800 NVIDIA which was three month before my warranty expired )) I would like to mention that I am a Pole here in Poland do not earn as much as Americans, or even our Western neighbors Germany, because that we more respect every spent penny. I thought to save some money and buy a laptop from Apple, I've heard that Mac OS is better than Windows, but I do not know under what terms. On Windows, you can run a much greater number of games than the Mac OS so what the operating system is better than Windows, Apple computers, and why are 50% if not more more expensive than PC class computers For now I'm using the new Windows 8 Home Edition which I bought a month ago, I missed a bit of good old start menu and that it can not be reset in place of Modern UI, but I going to get used to it. Back to top foodeater Hummingbird Joined: Jun 05, 2012 Posts: 22 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:37 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Why Apple computers are so damn expensive It's the operating system that's expensive. Just imagine it costs $800. The high price helps keep customers low enough that the service experience is generally better, with things like less wait time and faster turn around. (In the states, at least) OS quality is subjective, I prefer OSX because I find it less distracting, more clearly organized and with better tools for managing my files. More to the point, I like a lot of the music software that is OSX only and for audio use the foundations of OSX are more stable, reliable and flexible out of the box. I dual boot to use the one remaining windows only program I enjoy. There are ways to run OSX on your own hardware, but I have the money to support the software and hardware engineers at Apple who I feel do good work. I hope they are well compensated. Hopefully, in the future we will have enough power and battery life to spare to run multiple operating systems slide by side, without third party emulation. I agree, if you like games windows makes more sense, especially for a custom desktop system. Back to top morslilleole Raven Joined: Dec 18, 2011 Posts: 120 Location: Norway Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:00 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Why Apple computers are so damn expensive foodeater wrote: It's the operating system that's expensive. Just imagine it costs $800. The high price helps keep customers low enough that the service experience is generally better, with things like less wait time and faster turn around. (In the states, at least) OS quality is subjective, I prefer OSX because I find it less distracting, more clearly organized and with better tools for managing my files. More to the point, I like a lot of the music software that is OSX only and for audio use the foundations of OSX are more stable, reliable and flexible out of the box. I dual boot to use the one remaining windows only program I enjoy. There are ways to run OSX on your own hardware, but I have the money to support the software and hardware engineers at Apple who I feel do good work. I hope they are well compensated. Hopefully, in the future we will have enough power and battery life to spare to run multiple operating systems slide by side, without third party emulation. I agree, if you like games windows makes more sense, especially for a custom desktop system. Two operating systems at once? Sounds weird to me. I guess if you want to play games or use a program that's only available in one operating system it could be okay. But there's Wine ( and similar solutions for that. ) It runs slower, but I think the overhead of two operating systems would slow it down even more. It's better to find an OS you like, then maybe dual boot for those few programs your favorite operating system runs. And as for games; Linux ( with the upcoming Steam release ) and OS X has had Steam for a few years. Not saying every game will be cross-platform. But I think more and more games will be. At least I hope so. Just curious; what music software are you referring to? Don't most of it run on Windows? Back to top

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