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Mac Sales In Decline As Others Gain Traction

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I wouldn't mind having a Macbook, but I don't like their anti-tinkerer stances in terms of the hardware.

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Okay cool; so where can I get a pack of Belgian waffles?

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2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

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Nope. 

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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Can't say I'm surprised at the shrinkage. Back when Steve Jobs was alive they had a decent price ratio with business class PCs from Dell or Lenovo... Tim Cook more or less gutted the line up for pure profit margins while the rest of the PC market suffered from Win8 being a flop with negative to flat purchases of new systems to replace older systems.

 

Take a look back when Apple had a base model iMac which you could upgrade the RAM or CTO a larger HDD, that model was replaced by a more expensive iMac with a MacBook Air guts with soldered RAM which forced upsells if you wanted user-upgradable RAM.  Mac minis faced the same dumbing down, you could get a quad-core i7 and the new revision ditched it for dual-cores with soldered RAM.

 

I was in the market for a new desktop Mac last year, Apple didn't refresh the Mac Pro or Mac mini so I built four Skylake PCs and transitioned part of my workflow to Linux :o

...Apple has been ignoring the creative market far too long, desktop OS leaning Macs aren't part of their long-term strategy and iOS is their cash cow. I think within 3yrs you'll see Apple do something much crazier than the USB-C MBP, you might see them take advantage of their PA Semi development team to build a desktop grade ARM processor for maximum liberation from Intel and total hardware+software lock-in(Sun Microsystems/Oracle style) :/

 

 

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Far too many Dell laptops on the market.

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GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

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On 1/24/2017 at 8:39 PM, DrMacintosh said:

Im actually looking to buy a MacBook Pro. Imo Apple makes the best prosumer laptops. Sure they are pricy, but I mean I already have an iPhone and an Apple Watch and a massive iTunes Library, it would only make sense to buy a MacBook.

 

MacOS is so pretty and imo better than Windows for the day to day. That is not to say Windows is not as good.

 

Also I wont have to deal with Windows updates when I need to give a presentation xD 

 

I kid but really though Windows updates are annoying af. 

lol they don't. it is so overpriced 

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I wouldn't mind having a Macbook, but I don't like their anti-tinkerer stances in terms of the hardware.

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