Re: sales of netbooks drive down PC prices

Sermo Malifer wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:49:50 -0600, GreyCloud wrote:

Sermo Malifer wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:12:01 -0600, GreyCloud wrote:

Sermo Malifer wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:13:59 -0500, Jim wrote:

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/04/17/why-apples-shares-
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making it even harder for the Windows PC OEM's to make any money.
Meanwhile Apple....
That's great for Apple, but I'm having a tough time feeling bad about
paying less for a PC.


For the consumers, I hope for their sake that the PC vendors don't cut
too many corners.
There's lots of junk out there, no doubt. Stick with HP, Dell, Sony,
Asus, or the like, and you'll be okay.
The higher end machines are pretty good.

I should hope so! Most of my PCs are mid-range to low end, and they've all been a great value for what I paid for them.

The low end stuff has had many
corners cut and makes them either slow or limited let alone the
hardware quality.

That's simply not true. "Low end stuff" is 2.0 GHz dual and quad core PCs with 4 GB RAM for less than the price of a Mac Mini. That's good enough for most users, and the quality is good too.

Not from Dell tho. Another poster posted his experience with a cheap low-end Dell.
He didn't like the mounting hardware for the hard drive and considered it rather chinsy.
But I also view built in video chips on the mobo that has to share the user space ram rather
a short cut here as well. My idea of high-end PC is one with its own video card, ECC ram, two hard drives
of quality make, and a decent industrial keyboard that doesn't look like a flat pancake.
The Apple keyboard that is provided now isn't all that great. I'm considering going to Sun for a USB keyboard.


The best I ever had was an IBM tower.

IBM was too expensive too. That's why people mostly bought "IBM compatible" computers.

I feel I paid for quality with the IBM. It is 11 years old now and still runs and nothing broke.
The keyboard still works flawlessly too. What I liked about it was the room to change out hard drives
easily without any mechanical problems like I've found on other machines. Of course at the rate
of change in PCs these days, and if I had known about it back then, I probably would've purchased
a much cheaper machine. Even now I'd like to get the quad core HP with the new i7s from Intel.
But over a couple of years that too will become obsolete.

--
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo.
American Government official (1863-1941).
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