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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
Here's a link to a now dead (but commonly occuring sale) from Dell for a 14.4 Widescreen notebook with some similar specs to the 12" iBook. Specs might not be 100% comparable but it does let you know the price of admission on the respective platforms. Not sure how you interpret "highly portable" but this is 1.1" thick.
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...light=latitude
$549 including shipping. Looks pretty good IMHO for that price.
Macs are down right sexy, I give you that, but this is a pretty good example of how Macs are premium priced over Windows machines. |
Yes, If i wanted a 14" monitor I could have saved a ton. But I'm picky and wanted a 12", which for some reason shoots the PC price through the roof. I could throw back many examples of how a 12" PC laptop with over 5 hours of battery life is quite premium priced compared to the ibook.
With the wide range of Windows based computers available, there are gonna be cheap ones and expensive ones. For my purposes, the Mac was both cheaper and sexier.
I'm not trying to come across as a Windows hater or anything. I've only had a mac for 3 weeks and I've always used Windows before that, in fact I'm typing on my Windows desktop right now. I'm just saying that the Macs aren't always more expensive, depending on what you are looking for.