Who are you fooling? Does anybody care about comparing apples to oranges? I’d much rather spend my time going to the beach than listen to all of you desperado fanatics drone on about your ill-conceived, biased analysis of multi-billion dollar company business models, you guys probably haven’t even scored in economics! Newbies! I like my apple, someone likes their dell, the world turns, the sun sets, and life goes on. Apple co-creates standards such as xml, web services and hardware architectures, dell gets 12 year olds to put together computers for 50 cents a week. Apple writes software, dell gets 12 year olds to put together computers for 50 cents a week. A good commodity, wholesale business model, but not the same as a technology company. MIchael dell is a shrewd business man, he’ll squeeze every penny out of his suppliers to make 200 pennies in return. Do you factor this into the equation when you try to re-shape Apple Computer Corp.’s business model? Lol, where does a consumer of products become the heir confident of strategy for a large multi-billion dollar cap company by relating his/her economical injustices?! Silly if you ask me.ĭell schmell. This paves the way for research and development dollars + venture capitalist funding which turns into better employees and better products in the future. For a high-tech company, in order to keep churning great products (hw and sw), it’s entirely necessary to maintain a steady profit and good revenues especially if you’re a fortune 500 public company. Dell does a great job at it and would be tough to compete against, talk about putting yourself out of business! But just because it doesn’t, doesn’t mean you should be against them. Apple does not target the sweatshop labor based, low-margin areas.
The $1000 is justifiably a nice savings, but anytime you talk about money, it’s about opportunity cost, is $1000 worth it to you to own a different machine with different genetic makeup, or is your $1000 better spent somewhere else? That to me is rather relative, a guy that can buy a porsche 911 at $200k probably has a different opportunity cost from a student in high school or college. Who needs 1ghz for laptops–I don’t, 600mhz or even 450 would be fine for me.Īnd you can’t just go compare a p4 architecture to g4 with mhz, that’s like comparing gap khaki’s to victoria secrets thongs (the thongs can be taken off faster?) A p3 600mhz is a great notebook and even cheaper than a new dell that was made with sweatshop labor. I don’t know about you, but I don’t compile applications or play video games off my laptop, it’s more for less-workstation-esque type tasks, such as word processing, e-mail, internet browsing, dvd watching, and sometimes connecting remotely to some server that does the real compilations.ĭon’t get hung up on the mhz madness, it’s really overrated. Give up winblows xp and a more power hungry processor?