[Cialug] distro for ibook

[Afan Pasalic]

anybody on my side? any support?

:-)

afan



Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> Lenovo, HP etc., have a differant product. They just sell hardware and
> load whatever MS has on their product.
>
> Apple sells a "package" and that product is the sum of the Mac OS *and*
> the hardware.
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:05 -0600, Afan Pasalic wrote:
>   
>> Dave Weis wrote: 
>>     
>>> Afan Pasalic wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I should read before I hit the send button :-)
>>>> one thing is not clear to me. Is there REALLY good reason why apple 
>>>> computers are soooo expensive? hardware quality  can't be the answer 
>>>> because the same hardware configuration with Win on it  is at least 30% 
>>>> less, some times more then 50% less.
>>>>
>>>> the cheapest macbook now is $999. I bought toshiba laptop few months ago 
>>>> for $550 with, I think, superior hardware. if macbook was $600 or $650 I 
>>>> would buy a one. but to pay $400 apple logo on compuer? c'mon...
>>>>
>>>> I think with these prices Apple will never reach more then 10% of market 
>>>> share. more often I think they play kind of "noble product" game. only 
>>>> "special people" (rich?) can have it. lice cadillac or mercedes or 
>>>> porsche...
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Let's say it costs $100 to build a specific computer. If you sell the 
>>> computer for $110 you will net $10 and sell 1000 of them. Your net 
>>> profit is $10,000. If you sell it for $200 you will net $100 profit per 
>>> machine and sell 200 of them. Your net profit is $20,000. Which business 
>>> do you want to operate?
>>>
>>> dave
>>>       
>> I got it. but, with $110 you have 1000 clients they pay for
>> upgrade/update/maintain, comparing to 200 clients if you sell $200 a
>> piece, right?
>> and, if the market is 10,000, with 1000 you have 10% of market. with
>> 200 you have  2%.
>>
>> and, why then HP, Lenovo, Ford, Nike  are not doing the same? 
>>  
>> :-) 
>>  
>> _______________________________________________
>> Cialug mailing list
>> Cialug at cialug.org
>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>>     
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20091208/00f91d48/attachment.htm