I'd be curious to see how the figures for each bracket breakdown. IE, are the less expensive Apple offerings selling better than the more expensive ones in each bracket.
$2000 for 27" back lit almost full range for viewing angle lcd display + a computer. Not that nuts.
It's pretty nuts considering that the hardware isn't exactly top of the line. 27" LCD is only 400 bucks these days. I can put better hardware together for the other 1600 and still have money left over to go out drinking. For like a week.
It's pretty nuts considering that the hardware isn't exactly top of the line. 27" LCD is only 400 bucks these days. I can put better hardware together for the other 1600 and still have money left over to go out drinking. For like a week.
Apple uses IPS panels in the iMacs which cost far more than $400. The LCD alone is almost half the price of the computer.
The only thing Apple really nails you to a wall with on the MacBook Pros are the memory, you're also not taking into account the gorgeous, thin and fairly light body that you will find no other laptop on the market even tries to rival.
Feh... perhaps I just don't have a discerning eye but I've never been able to pick out a difference between an iMac display and most other decent commercial LCDs. At least not enough to justify paying the stupid-high price tag.
EDIT: @chrisWhite - I was referring to the iMac, not the MBP. I'll accept that the MBP may be worth it for the aluminum body. The iMac is a waste of money though IMO.
Oh, I misread, my mistake. I couldn't agree more though, I just don't think iMacs are high value in the hardware sense and I personally think they're ugly as hell too.
You will most certainly be able to figure out the difference between an IPS panel and a TN panel very quickly when going from one to another. Start with what angle you stare at the screen at and move on from there.
I have gone from one to another quite quickly and really didn't pick up on any meaningful difference. Back in my college days, one of the staff members that my department took care of ordered one of the 22" iMacs (I think it was a 22"). I was one of the people that worked on setting it up for them. It sat right on our workbench next to a row of a dozen or so Dell 17" ultrasharp flat panel monitors. Aside from the difference in size and resolution, I didn't notice any significant difference between the two when moving from one to the other.
Granted I wasn't watching a movie on either screen, just doing sys-adminey type stuff, but I still say the iMac is an overhyped, overpriced box with only mediocre hardware. I'd take a Samsung monitor and a home brewed box plus the extra cash to buy liquor any day over the iMac.
The screens they use have also changed a lot pretty quickly, the screen on my three or four year old MacBook Pro is abysmally dim compared to anything I could buy now. Doesn't hold a candle to my wonderful HP 24"
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EDIT: @chrisWhite - I was referring to the iMac, not the MBP. I'll accept that the MBP may be worth it for the aluminum body. The iMac is a waste of money though IMO.
Granted I wasn't watching a movie on either screen, just doing sys-adminey type stuff, but I still say the iMac is an overhyped, overpriced box with only mediocre hardware. I'd take a Samsung monitor and a home brewed box plus the extra cash to buy liquor any day over the iMac.
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