Posted 10/01/08 at 12:20:05 PM by Paul Lilly
By our own admission, MacBooks aren't half bad. In Maximum PC's Apple's Notebooks Take On the PC Competition, Apple's MacBook walked away as best-in-class in the professional segment, much to the dismay of the PC faithful. But that doesn't mean we're willing to squeeze our wallet dry to own one.
On average, you can expect to pay twice as much on an Apple PC versus a Vista computer. And people are doing just that. Windows PCs still dominate the lion's share of the market at 80 percent, but Apple continues to cling to a respectable 20 percent slice of the pie. Making its piece even more savory, Apple's making over 35 percent of the revenue share. Think about that. Despite claiming one-fifth of the market, Apple's cashing in on over a third of the revenue.
These numbers come courtesy of the latest NPD sales information, but some feel that Apple has done as well as it ever will at the current price point. Joe Wilcox from eWeek writes, "What's next? I predict that Apple's grab for dollars has gone about as far as it can, without price cuts. Apple's higher prices buck industry trends."
That may be the case, but can trendy hipsters be expected to buck the trend of overpaying?
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Links:
[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/one4yu2c
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[4] http://www.dailytech.com/Vista Computers Half the Cost of Macs on Average/article12590.htm
[5] http://www.dailytech.com/Pricey Apples Hold 20 Percent of Retail Notebook Sales and 35 Percent of Revenue/article13095.htm
[6] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/mac_users_are_whiney_losers_love_maximum_pc
[7] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/how_to_lose_your_macbook_air
[8] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/rumor_next_macbooks_might_not_use_chipsets
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