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iMac stability question
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People come to forums to complain. There are always more problems threads than praise.
Problems with computers and parts are all rare. I work in the tech business and computer failure rate is about 2% or less on most things. Yes you also have to realize that the reason why a lot of posts on here are made are because people are experiencing issues and make a post here trying to get a fix. All the others just don't post because their mac or pc work just fine.
I have a macbook pro, and an iPhone both of which have their known issues, but mine work just fine.
Also personally I will not buy an imac until they approve on it which it looks like they will on their new series. If you saw their sales records on Imacs this year you saw that they were about 8% compared to about 12% last year. So mac can't afford to have expensive computers in this economy so I believe prices will go down as I think they need to.
I beieve Apple needs to make a mac pro like pc for the iMac price. So just a tower with a quad core and such, but with a price for about 1500 or so. I will admit that their build quality is top notch and I doubt if you will find something that comes close to it. Unfortunately though people are suffering and they just can't afford a 1500 dollar PC when you can tell them that this 700 dollar windows PC will do just about all the same stuff. Realize that they are customers, don't really know the difference. Most people don't know crap about computers.
Otherwise Apple does make good products, quality is amazing. Prices in my opinion though are too high. I was going to buy the 1800 dollar iMac, but for that price I could buy an awesome i7 machine that would beat the **** out of the mac in every benchmark or test you could throw at it. Memory on newegg for DDR3 is about 90 dollars or so for 6gb's. Memory is really cheap, no reason why every iMac shouldn't have at least 4gb and more standard. Hd's are a dime a dozen, the processors they use are about 300 or so on newegg. The only component in the computer that is probably expensive is the board.
So all in all Apple you're stuff is too expensive, but I love your build quality and operating system
Your laptops are amazing, your desktops need work.
Final note: even though they don't have the best hardware they still run really fast because it is a unix based OS so it does work more efficiently.
I have a macbook pro, and an iPhone both of which have their known issues, but mine work just fine.
Also personally I will not buy an imac until they approve on it which it looks like they will on their new series. If you saw their sales records on Imacs this year you saw that they were about 8% compared to about 12% last year. So mac can't afford to have expensive computers in this economy so I believe prices will go down as I think they need to.
I beieve Apple needs to make a mac pro like pc for the iMac price. So just a tower with a quad core and such, but with a price for about 1500 or so. I will admit that their build quality is top notch and I doubt if you will find something that comes close to it. Unfortunately though people are suffering and they just can't afford a 1500 dollar PC when you can tell them that this 700 dollar windows PC will do just about all the same stuff. Realize that they are customers, don't really know the difference. Most people don't know crap about computers.
Otherwise Apple does make good products, quality is amazing. Prices in my opinion though are too high. I was going to buy the 1800 dollar iMac, but for that price I could buy an awesome i7 machine that would beat the **** out of the mac in every benchmark or test you could throw at it. Memory on newegg for DDR3 is about 90 dollars or so for 6gb's. Memory is really cheap, no reason why every iMac shouldn't have at least 4gb and more standard. Hd's are a dime a dozen, the processors they use are about 300 or so on newegg. The only component in the computer that is probably expensive is the board.
So all in all Apple you're stuff is too expensive, but I love your build quality and operating system
Your laptops are amazing, your desktops need work.
Final note: even though they don't have the best hardware they still run really fast because it is a unix based OS so it does work more efficiently.