When is Apple gonna make an affordable computer that compares to Microsofts prices?

Question

I realize you get what you pay for but for Apple to become the computer giant that Microsoft is they will have to become cheaper. Its a little hard to justify spending 1800.00 bucks compared to 800.00 when shopping for a computer.

Answer 1

Never. Apple has always made a better product and for them to participate in flooding th emarket with cheap copies of something which they have fought hard to keep would be stupid.

I agree about the prices, but I started out on an Apple][ and and now that I have had PC's for a while, I think I will spend the money for another Apple the next time I go buy a computer. I can keep the old PC's for something like games.

Answer 2

first off, microsoft does not make computers, they make software that computers run on, What you need to do is some computer brand comparison. You have your high end computers, apple, sony, toshiba, and then you low end computers, dell, eMachine, HP ect. Apple are expensive becuase they are high quality machines, you can get them for cheaper than 1800 anyway, apple sells to a different market niche than lets say dell who targets businesses.

Answer 3

Apple never will... not when they have their own dedicated supporters that will buy anything, and when Apple is the only one with rights to their systems...

Microsoft systems are so cheap because of all the competition

Answer 4

That's the whole point Apple purposely doesn't want to make an affordable compute. Indeed, if you look at it, Apple doesn't sell compute. They sell "style". :)

Answer 5

You can get a Mac Mini for $599 (you'll need your own monitor). Don't let the small size fool you. It's one powerful computer. It replaced a big box at work and runs circles around it.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=B3C47B0&nclm=Macmini

Answer 6

thats just it, ibm and microsofts targets are the masses, build lots of cheap pc's and sell,