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So what? For those who use a laptop as a very large PDA or DVD player, that is just wonderful. Let’s try something like SolidWorks or Solid Edge and see how they perform, not. Its not about platform but what you need to do with it.
Does this whole world need to be on this kick about my orange is better than your peach? To me it is getting the right tool for the job. Who cares if it is Snap-On or Matco?
No bias in this article, nope.
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The author is right about one thing. If you go into Best Buy, at the Apple display .....all Apple computers and laptops have internet connectivity which is useful for test driving any computer. I can immediately sort out HP laptops and others as far specs and price but I can see how this dufus (who was a tech stock analyst) and others might be confused
Articles like this are a waste of bandwidth and an annoyance to people who want real facts.
There's a lot of the trivial in the mac base, which is a shame, because the mac laptops are a fine product and don't need crap like this to sell.
Seems like Apples are the choice of the cafe class
I think a better place to do such a study is in an airport. Hover near the security area, and see what people run through.
For those who complain about what the Macs cost, it might well be worth it if you spend a lot of time doing work on your machine. Let’s take the $1,600 MacBook Pro mentioned above. You can pay a LOT more for that for the high end version of just the Adobe Creative Suite, or Autodesk’s products, or any number of vertical applications. Heck, some people will pay that just to add a high-end SSD and graphics upgrade to a base desktop unit.
Over the course of a three-year cycle, the daily cost of a good computer is miniscule.
Many folks that I know who use PCs wouldn't switch to Apple because they already know what they know and they don't want to relearn.
If one company focuses on production software and the other on fun, guess which will win out.
The only problem I have with this is trying to figure out why someone would take a computer to a cafe anyway?
If you’re working, then why not stay somewhere you can be focused and have all your resources at your fingertips.
If you’re not working then why go to a public place to do an inherently private (working on a computer) activity.
Unless of course the reason to go to the cafe is just to be seen. In which case the brand statistics make perfect sense.
It could also be that the HP buying bunch are too cheap to treat themselves to a cafe coffee or food.
I just had a keyboard replaced on my Toshiba laptop. It took a little over month for it to be fixed by them.
HP does not care how to treat its customers. I hope they go up in smoke!
It turns out that the laptop is a power machine, but the case wasn't designed for the kind of heat it puts out when running at max speed.
Through much internet searching, I eventually found out that I needed to undervolt the CPU to keep it from overheating. Now it runs fine, but I went through a lot of aggravation to get to this point.
-PJ
All that and a $299 AppleCare refund -- without even asking!
It would be nice to be less than 100 miles from the nearest Apple Store, but with online service like that, I'm quite satisfied. (Besides -- it puts less temptation stress on the ol' wallet...) '-)
Toshiba, ASUS, Acer, Samsung rule in Europe. Try them. Low market share in the US = lower prices.
California company sweeps all with a clean KO...