Comments on: NPD: Apple Rules High-End Retail Computers

By: andres

andres — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:15:01 +0000

"High end" or expensive, people get price tags confused with quality.
The macs I have used are generally equal in the "reliability" factor if not worse than any PC I have used.
The majority of opinions formed on PC vs Mac are from commercials, bias advertisements, and looks.
If you look at every piece of hardware on the machine, you can almost always get it cheaper on PC.
Macs seem to be winning people over with the user friendly aspect, and Microsoft seems to have dropped the ball with Vista.
However, there is a HUGE number of other operating systems available to users on PCs.

Macs can be powerful and fast- arguably easier to use- yet they are very expensive.
Every PC I have ever built has been under half the cost of its Mac counterpart- Runs beautifully stable and is more computable with the applications I need, and the development environment I want.

By: billn

billn — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:07:57 +0000

It's not (hardly) about vista, it's about the wow factor. Most Apples leave you wanting – a PC is typically a PC (so far) whoever makes it.

It's all about design.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:47:31 +0000

To MJ:

So Dell, HP and others do not sell systems over $1000? You couldn't be further from the truth. You can also pick up Dell systems at your local Best Buy now too. Along with Gateway, HP and others.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:23:43 +0000

With more and more people designing web sites on their home computers, and for using them for apps other than office, it's clear that Mac speaks to a greater audience. Also, with the dangers in ID theft, and computer hackers, theirs a vulnerability diverted to some degree by also owning a Mac. And lastly, they look so cool. Other companies like Dell-HP etc try to be cool with a skin or one solid color. Well, we appreciate the effort, but that's just not enough. At least Sony understands the design idea. But I think they are the only ones.

By: mj

mj — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:28:56 +0000

it's easy to own a market share when you are the only player in town...
these numbers are for brick & mortar sales of computers over $1000

hmm, that exludes DELL and most other desktops that all cost less than $1000. apple only sells computers over $1000, so of course apple looks like it is doing well in that catagory

these numbers were cherry picked to boost apple's image

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:02:35 +0000

No suprise here, Dell, HP and the others have had very poor attempts at creating a minimalistic, quality product like Apple.

The Windows-based system builders need to create innovative products that use high quality parts, not junk straight out of China.

By: James

James — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:45:46 +0000

I think we can all thank Vista for Apple's growth. I know a lot of people that figure “if I need to learn a new OS, it might as well be Apple instead of Vista”.