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RD Sandman wrote:

Overall, desktop sales on all platforms is down as more go to
laptops. Primarily because laptops now have enough performance for
almost all applications and the prices are down quite a bit. Heck
for all the bitching about Apple's prices, laptops with similar
specifications and build quality are all pretty much the same in
cost.

Apple just doesn't do cheap laptops.

Which is why Apple sells only a small fraction of the number of
laptops sold. PC dominates over Mac even in the laptop market


But Apple makes most of the profit...

:-)

Shows they overprice their goods....

Not exactly a positive thing from the view point of anyone looking at
buying their products.




But an excellent one from theirs as long as it doesn't drastically reduce
sales. With the charisma Apple seems to hold, I don't think that is much
of a problem. It is like the folks who love to own Cadillacs. It
doesn't cost much more to produce a Cadillac than it does Chevy, but
compare the price and the cachet.

No.

Because a Cadillac is still a POS GM product. A Mac actually does work
better for ordinary people.

My business is supporting Mac users and I'm in serious trouble with my
clients who have single machines or even small all-Mac networks, because
they no longer need much of my support.

I went to visit one client the other day for a very small email issue
and I realized that it had been a couple of YEARS since I last did any
work for that company.

I'd say that for them, the Mac has worked out very well; not so well for
me.

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Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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