In your opinion, Apple computers are overpriced?

I think in USA is more cheaper because of has less tax over it and they arre smaller either, but in another countries, has more tax over it, and it became more expensive, do you agree with this?

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Permalink Reply by PGAndreas on October 8, 2008 at 7:50am: Not really, it's worth the price.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by KtecK on October 8, 2008 at 9:19am: I'm not gonna say much... Just that you get what you pay for. Buy cheap get low grade off the shelf parts. I've been on one of those "cheap" machines for over 2 years and it took many upgrades to even get it useable so add atelast 200+$ on top of the base price(Video card,Ram,hard drive,addon cards to bypass crap onboard features). And i still got to get more upgrades to keep it useable with modern oses.

Better yet this explains it:

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Permalink Reply by Erez on October 8, 2008 at 9:56am: Well, I do think Apple computers are overpriced in some cases.
The iMac maybe not, but the Mac Pro is way overpriced, and the MBP too, why start with $2000 when you can get the strongest iMac for just $2200??; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mad Max on October 8, 2008 at 10:43am: The MacPro is very competetively priced. Remember it's a workstation with server hardware which instantly puts it into the professional user realm. Equivilent systems made by Dell and HP and so on tend to cost as much or more for lower specs, plus run Vista, which leaves you with less power than the Mac does due to being so heavy on resources.

The MacBook Pro has an excellent build quality and uses recyclable materials like aluminium. My boss owns a Dell XPS that cost him like a £1200 and it's still made from plastic that scracthes easily, and gets mighty hot just stuck on desktop doing nothing.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Erez on October 8, 2008 at 10:51am: But don't forget the Mac Pro comes with only 2GB ram as a basis, which is very very low, adding more ram costs a fortune for this computer!
Also it comes with only 320GB HD which is kinda low assuming you're a professional music / video editor, and also an upgrade costs a lot of money.
The video card is also lame comparing to the pro uses which also upgrading is very expensive.

A pro never takes the base model, so after all the upgrades it can get to almost $4,000, and a home user just gets an iMac.

As for the MBP, it is built well and with a very high quality materials.
But still, why would it cost much more from the iMac? they are made from the same materials and also the iMac is built with high quality engineering and has a faster processor.
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Permalink Reply by Ratio Title on October 8, 2008 at 11:04am: If your in the U.S. the prices are pretty fair. But of course if you are anywhere else, the price may change drastically.

This is a video I saw earlier this year by Blunty3000 on youtube; He lives in Australia. They do have to pay significantly more than others for the same exact products. So dependent on where you are, Apple computers, and likely the rest of their products, are very well overpriced and I completely agree that they are. I definitely wouldn't even dream of their products if they carried these kinds of price tags.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by roy on October 8, 2008 at 12:04pm: To Mad Max, I am on a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4094 and the only thing I have done to it (running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 Server Pack 3) is add 2gigs of ram. It is funny how you say the MacPro is built for servers and is suppose to be really fast and handle huge loads. Well I have a Photoshop file I have made and (did not make it on this computer so it is not cached or anything) I can open it faster on my little laptop then I can the MacPro. Tell me what is wrong with that picture there? It takes my laptop 4 minutes and 39 seconds to open it up to were I can edit it. On the MacPro it takes well over 8 minutes, and I seem to lock up the MacPro with the file while editing it then this small little laptop. Yes the laptop locks up for a few seconds ocationaly. But the MacPro locks up for around a minute before starting to respond. So please explain this to me. Why is this?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mad Max on October 8, 2008 at 12:36pm: The MacPro is a desktop tower system, you must be thinking of the MacBook Pro. Are you running the same version of Photoshop on both? And that MacBook sounds like it's borked, take it to an Apple store and have them look at it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by roy on October 8, 2008 at 1:14pm: It is the MacPro not the MacBook Pro, I use it on my college compass. Yes same version of Photoshop, and it has the same updates too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mad Max on October 8, 2008 at 1:21pm: Are you sure its the Pro and not the PowerMac g5? They have the same cases but only 1 optical drive bay and 1 USB port on front. Something seems desperately wrong if it's taking that long.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by roy on October 8, 2008 at 1:25pm: I am 100% sure it is a MacPro, they just got it a year ago. And it is not like it is just the one I use in class it is the same on all of the ones they have. They got them for the media department but I know the instructor and he allows me to come in and use them when he is in there, and they have 2 USB ports in front.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Da Tech Man on October 8, 2008 at 12:42pm: Personally, I think Macs are a little overpriced, I mean, a iMac 20" is $1099 starting price, and I could probably get a PC with the same specs for 800 bucks at most. Yes I do know that there is a LCD monitor built in, but it's still overpriced.

As for the Macbook Air, avoid it, get a Macbook. Macbook Airs are way overpriced.; ▶ Reply to This