Comments on: Does Apple need a cheaper option? A philisophical NO. http://mobiletechmob.com/2009/10/27/does-apple-need-a-cheaper-option-a-philisophical-no/ Commentary on Mobile Tech and the Cloud Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:40:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Rick Castellini http://mobiletechmob.com/2009/10/27/does-apple-need-a-cheaper-option-a-philisophical-no/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Rick Castellini Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:07:33 +0000 http://www.tech-hacker.net/?p=250#comment-743 Oh, yeah, the new aluminum MacBooks ooze quality. And the feel of a Macbook keyboard is second to none...IMHO. Oh, yeah, the new aluminum MacBooks ooze quality. And the feel of a Macbook keyboard is second to none…IMHO.

]]> By: Chris Smith http://mobiletechmob.com/2009/10/27/does-apple-need-a-cheaper-option-a-philisophical-no/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Chris Smith Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:57:18 +0000 http://www.tech-hacker.net/?p=250#comment-741 Rick you are right. I haven't owned my Mac for that long, but I feel that the build quality, tech support, and just overall quality is worth the price payed. I feel like the aluminum construction of my MacBook is quite amazing and know that this thing will last way longer than I even expect it to. The only thing that I may have to change on it would be the battery after a couple of years, which is par for the course on a notebook. I love my Mac! Rick you are right.

I haven’t owned my Mac for that long, but I feel that the build quality, tech support, and just overall quality is worth the price payed.

I feel like the aluminum construction of my MacBook is quite amazing and know that this thing will last way longer than I even expect it to. The only thing that I may have to change on it would be the battery after a couple of years, which is par for the course on a notebook.

I love my Mac!

]]> By: Rick Castellini http://mobiletechmob.com/2009/10/27/does-apple-need-a-cheaper-option-a-philisophical-no/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Rick Castellini Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:50:33 +0000 http://www.tech-hacker.net/?p=250#comment-739 In our society of cheaper, faster, and more, I think that we overlook that folks tend to keep their Macs longer and require less maintenance and help during their ownership. This all leads to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to use a popular biz term. Plus, if you actually look at any of the Macs and match them up feature-for-feature, the actual cost difference isn't much. All that being said, I don't own a Mac. My daughter has a MacBook and we bought an iMac for my son, but I don't use them often since I'm a Windows support dude. I LOVE using the Mac, but like Linux, it doesn't require a lot of tweaking and coddling like Windows does. In our society of cheaper, faster, and more, I think that we overlook that folks tend to keep their Macs longer and require less maintenance and help during their ownership. This all leads to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to use a popular biz term. Plus, if you actually look at any of the Macs and match them up feature-for-feature, the actual cost difference isn’t much.

All that being said, I don’t own a Mac. My daughter has a MacBook and we bought an iMac for my son, but I don’t use them often since I’m a Windows support dude. I LOVE using the Mac, but like Linux, it doesn’t require a lot of tweaking and coddling like Windows does.

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