[Cialug] distro for ibook

[Alan Maupin]

It's not about the Logo, its about quality.  The hardware and software provide a premium enduser computing experience.  My computing experience began with DOS in 1988, Amiga in 1990, and then Slackware in about 1994.  Since then I've gone through all the versions of Windows and tried many Linux distributions. 

Currently, a good digital photography workflow or high end home-based video editing platform was not possible on Linux.  Windows became more and more of an issue with so many OS problems.  I was forced to stay with XP since my real-time video editing card was tied to XP and Adobe Premiere.  Finally, a Windows malware problem cause a large loss of data and convinced me to take drastic measures.  

In the fall of 2008 I decided to try Apple.  I purchased a MacBook Air for my Son and a MacBook with Cinema display for myself.  My main focus was video and image editing so I also purchased Final Cut Express for the MacBook.  The Macbook had 4-Gb Ram and a 2.4 GHz core 2 duo processor.  From that experience, this spring I went ahead and purchased a QuadCore MacPro with 8-Gb ram and Final Cut Studio.  NOw, If I want or need Linux or Windows I boot it up on my MacPro using Parallels Desktop.  I can run OS X, Linux and Windows simultaneously on the same machine, but I've yet to find a need for that.




On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Afan Pasalic wrote:

> Zachary Kotlarek wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Afan Pasalic wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> 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... 
>>>     
>> 
>> 
>> You're trying to buy a cheap computer. That's not what Apple sells. If that's what you want to buy you should stay away. Full stop.
>> 
>> Apple has virtually no interest in the sub-$1k market -- they'd be happy to let someone else clean up those low-margin sales, because selling in that market only dilutes their high-margin sales and luxury branding. That's why the only sub-$1k machine Apple has sold recently (the Mac Mini) is underpowered, overpriced, and never gets updates or ad time.
>> 
>> Apple's prices on more expensive machines are much more competitive. But margins are much higher across the industry when you're selling $2.5k machines, so that's not surprising.
>> 
>> 	Zach
> ok. got it. more clear now.
> but, do you agree that you pay apple brand much more then HP or Thinkpad brand? apple has bigger price (few percentile) because it is "in trend"? and plus they have better marketing then others (few more percentile bigger price)?
> 
> :-) 
> 
> (ubuntu made me spoild!)
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