silvarios wrote:
[quote=Lew Zealand]
[quote=silvarios]
[quote=Lew Zealand]
That's a $1299 laptop from Dell for the cheapest version. Not many people are going to go for that, regardless of the specs.
No one is allowed to compete with Apple? If nothing else, hope Apple puts a better panel in the nearly $1000 MacBook Air.
What's this "allowed?"
Apple dominates the >$1000 computer market and there's no indication that another in a long line of high-spec PC laptops will eat into their market share. Hardware specs alone don't matter to the general public. Beats, for example.
For many years Apple essentially only competed in the $1000+ price point. No surprise they have a large chunk of the premium market. The problem always has been Apple's entry level offerings were basically $1000, but not very premium. Not bad, but compromised as most company's entry level products usually end up being.
This Dell seems to be heads and shoulders above the Air for less money. I'm waiting for some reviews to confirm before crowning it king just yet, but early returns are promising. Any reason you wouldn't consider this Dell if it lives up to the early hype?
Yes, there is one. I'd rather have the 13" MBPr for pretty much the same money ($1299 and up, $1099 at the refurb store), the extra 0.9 lb is fine with me. And that's for a single reason - OS X. Windows 7 is fine though I find Windows 8 to be a poor fit for a non-tablet.
I'm very interested in how it compares to the 13" MBPr though conventional wisdom will have it compared to the MBA because of their similar weights.
The real question to me is whether the buying public can be convinced to buy more expensive PCs, most of which are worth the money, when all they get bombarded with is this $249 Chromebook and that $299 Pentium laptop. And similarly priced tablets. IMO the public sees a PC laptop and expects a price less than $400 and if they want a Mac they start saving (or pop it on a credit card). I think they see $1299 PC laptops as not worth it, even though they are.
