You have to love the game that Apple plays. The company never puts anything on sale and all its products generally stay at their MSRP until new models are available to replace them. Well, because of yesterday’s new products, today is lucky day. (if you’re in the market for a new Mac, that is)
Head over to the refurbished section in the Apple Store for some nice bargains. Yeah, these are all refurbs, but they do save you a bit of coin. You can snag a 2.13GHz MacBook for $749, a MacBook Air for $1,099, an aluminum MacBook for $899, or a 24-inch iMac for $1,099. Plus there are a whole lot more deals. I say go for it.
all those savings and still not interested… have you heard about that new thing coming out for pc’s.. windows 7 i think its called.. you can get a windows pc with it and have 3 times the specs..
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Wow something from apple, first of all on sale and below $999? Wow this is surely an act of god.
I love my MacBook to death, but I think the next laptop I get, which won’t be any time soon, is simply going to have to be a hackintosh. I just can’t see myself affording anything Apple has to offer, even in their bargain bin. Plus with a hackintosh it will have that cool aura about it, you know, like, “Ya, I have an almost one of a kind Mac”
I think people buy macs for the “cool” factor and because they think they’re being “different” in some sort of way.. but to me in the end all macs and their very small pc selection just seems too blend, I built my pc according to my needs and personality at a much lower price and with a lot more kick. I could never see my self walking into a mac store and buying the same exact computer everyone else is.
funny stuff. people only buy macs because they’re cool. and democrats destroy the economy and love to spend and republicans are all evil and love war and the french all smell (and other simple-minded bs) and women all want me . . .well OK, that last one is true.
ps–love my $700 Mac and my $1299 24″ iMac.
Wouldn’t pay the Windows tax for viruses and bad UI for anything, but then they’re all tools, so get over it already!
“Wouldn’t pay the Windows tax for viruses and bad UI for anything, but then they’re all tools, so get over it already!”
Wow, what a hypocrite.
You chastise others for spewing mac stereotypes…. then turn right around and spew Windows stereotypes.
Is this the limit of a Mac user’s intelligence?
There are stereotypes and there are facts. Windows (like it or not) is expensive and (like it or not) is the target to many viruses. And if you put those two UIs to the test, Apple’s is better.
I would go even farther and say that it’s in fact even worse paying the Apple tax too. Simply research well and get a machine that’s fully compatible with Ubuntu… :D
Macs used to be worth the coin when they could out perform a PC while using slower specs because the OS was on the chip and you didn’t need drivers to run every aspect.
Now, they use Intel and are software driven which means they are basically an over priced proprietary PC running a flavor of Nix…(Soon enough viruses will be present) Definitely NOT worth $1200 for a mediocre machine when I can build a monster gaming rig that will kill it for the same money. Plus, I really think Microsoft opened their freakin eyes after the whole Vista debacle. BUT, we’ll see. Just because I like the cost efficiency of PCs doesn’t mean I’m an MS Fanboy.
Dude, what are you smoking? The Mac OS has NEVER been on-chip. They had a ROM that was required back in the pre-OS X days, but that’s one small part of the firmware, not the OS.
And just because you don’t get what makes Macs good doesn’t mean diddly. Gaming is one thing, but then there are people who use computers for useful things besides entertainment.
Yes, I agree with Eric, the os was never on a chip, and the PowerPC CPU was never some incredibly godly processor that outperformed Intel in every way.
The fact that you try to claim that they are “now software driven” is proof that you know jack about computers.
You realize that even if the OS was on a chip (which it never was) THE PROGRAM ON THE CHIP WOULD BE SOFTWARE right?
You want a hardware-driven computer? Go rebuild ENIAC .
Wow, you need to get writers who know how to check their facts. Apple puts things on sale all the time. There’s a permanent section of their web store for just that.
But then when did facts ever get in the way of taking a poke at Apple, or Intel or Microsoft, or anyone else? (Cheney deserves it.)