Resident evil: 300k to 400k...this money will get me å plot of land in ikorodu and other places in lag!

Idi-Amin:
I can understand the arguemant here. Of course they are expensive and over-priced, I agree.
But if you can afford it, then don't go for anything else
I have had 3 generations of macbooks, currently using the Macbook Pro 15 inch. I do a lot of video & audio editing, the software runs smoothly and it's as easy as 1,2,3. For the 6 years I have been using apple,never bought an anti-virus software or had any problems with viruses.
I use DELL laptop at work everyday and Macbook Pro at home, and the experience is simply incomparable.
If you cant afford it, then get your HP or Toshiba, you can probably do the same things on there too. If you have the coins, then go for Apple, it's in a different class.

Ozegbe:
so how much did you get the macbook pro 15inch?

::Andrew:::
why are apples expensive more than mango and other fruits?

Idi-Amin:


I paid £1399 for it then, Dec 2010 and it still runs like new, no hang ups whatsoever.
The new retina display ones are out now with ethe quad-core Intel Core i7 processors, but I dont think it's worth it to upgrade just for retina display. I had a look at one of them on display in the Apple store, the screen really looks amazing and super sharp, but not worth double dipping for really

Ola one:

Costs more than this (if bought in the UK, for example). But, I have to agree, it is NOT worth it.

ekt_bear:

Any HP that costs the same as a Mac will absolutely [b]murder the Mac in terms of specs.
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All I know is, Apple is a wonderful STOCK to own (and I say this as an Apple shareholder).

But for the same reason they are wonderful for investors, they are not a company a budget-conscious person should be looking to buy major hardware from.

Ozegbe:
Bro do you mind giving me the basic specs of that mac that cost almost 400k.

lavita2: I've been using the Mac for more than a month now. I must confess, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. . Worth every penny I paid. RIP PC

ekt_bear:

The hilarious thing to me is that they use PC parts.

Intel processor.

Standard PC memory.

Etc.

So you are just paying extra money for the same hardware the guy next to you who bought a HP has

It isn't like Apple makes their own processors or anything these days..

damilola15: Apart from functionality, they're sleek and easy on the eye.
I saved-up some time ago to buy a brand new 160GB ipod classic. I felt so reluctant to let go the money that I eventually opted for a higher capacity memory card.

monkeyleg: Good to see people are catching on the over pricing. Apple used to justify this when they own processors and specific hardware. That is no longer the case, there are other very good computers out there for half the price. If you are not doing media related work, then really the cost cannot be justified

moonraker: Some peeps on this thread making a hell of noise about

the MAC being the best shit out there since the discovery

of atlantis, havent even use a mac before. talk less of

eating 3 square meals a day..


Heres the deal, Can anyone on this thread justify the high price tag

on the mac??

Ok let me re phrase my question

What is inbuilt into the mac that makes it so expensive??

the build?? OS or the components??

as it had been said on this thread

the components in the mac are parts that can be gotten from third parties.

I own a macbook pro 2011 version Speced out!!! Its a nice computer, no doubt

but i saw an hp envy 17 recently and i was WTF

pleep: I bought a Macbook pro for college because literally everyone has one over here... when i got home and tried to do my work i realized i had just payed $1,800 for a computer that doesn't even have word.

First thing i did with my mac was go on Sony.com and custom make a windows computer with 1 terabyte of memory, 12gb of ram, an invidia G-force graphics card, a lithium polymer battery and 3 years of virus protection... all for $1,700. I returned the [i]fu[/i]cking macbook the next day.

OOG:

How much does the HP Envy 17 Cost?

moonraker:


Didnt buy it in Nigeria but i am gonna give you

as estimate!!! 285,000

OOG:

Interesting... I got my core i5 macbook pro for N172,000 mid last year. Immediately upgraded to 8gb ram and hybrid 500Gb hdd with another N30,000 which brings it to a total of N202,000 and yet it's still way cheaper than the Envy 17 you mentioned.
Is this thread still about macbooks being so expensive? The HP Envy 17 I got for a client recently cost twice the amount I spent on my macbook pro and yet the guy is stuck with Windows OS whereas I dualboot Windows and Mac OS on my macbook pro! So who do you think got a better bargain?
The plain truth is that I don't believe macs are expensive; you really get what you pay for. I spend virtually 70% of my time on my laptop and I assure you the Mac OS gives you a far better and stable user experience. I still have qualms with Apple in some areas but largely, they've done a great work.
At the end of the day PCs will sell and Macs will sell no matter what our varied opinions may be but let's not try and cheapen and discredit the good work Apple has done in giving us an alternative to PCs. Recently, macbook sales have been on the rise because most people are just plain tired of their PCs.

hispy99:

Is it all about specs? Yes, any HP that costs the same as a MAC will absolutely murder a Mac in terms of specs, but what about reliability? I have used an HP(approx $1,600), DELL (company provided) and Toshiba (approx $1,600). I had actually sworn never to buy an HP after seeing the HP of a friend crash after about a month of use in 2002! However, the tech person at my place of work convinced me to buy one in 2006 as HP had improved. What happened? My HP fell apart after 3 months; the letters on the key board first started falling off, next it was the speakers that went out, then the screen began to separate from the main body (my wife bought a similar HP and the same thing happened to her own, apart from the letters falling off her keyboard). Then after about 18 months, the HP crashed (My wife's crashed after 2 years).

My Toshiba held up better than the HP; after about 6 months I noticed a green line that split my screen into 2. I got it fixed and then it was the battery. I changed it and then after 2 years, it began showing symptoms it was going to crash, which it did after another 3 months.

My DELL? Don't even get me started, I used it for 3 months and parked it under my office table. I haven't touched it since then.

I finally convinced myself to buy a a MacPro ($2,300) almost 3 years ago and guess what? I have not had ONE single problem. Not One. My wife got hers 2 years ago and guess what again? Not ONE single issue (apart from her machine being slow at some point, which was due to the fact that she was not updating her OS patches. Once we updated her Mac's OS, it worked just fine).

Needless to say, I am never going back to a HP or Toshiba. I would rather pay $2300 and use my laptop without issues for 3-4 years, than buy a HP for $1600 and change it every 18 months.

hispy99:

Is it all about specs? Yes, any HP that costs the same as a MAC will absolutely murder a Mac in terms of specs, but what about reliability? I have used an HP(approx $1,600), DELL (company provided) and Toshiba (approx $1,600). I had actually sworn never to buy an HP after seeing the HP of a friend crash after about a month of use in 2002! However, the tech person at my place of work convinced me to buy one in 2006 as HP had improved. What happened? My HP fell apart after 3 months; the letters on the key board first started falling off, next it was the speakers that went out, then the screen began to separate from the main body (my wife bought a similar HP and the same thing happened to her own, apart from the letters falling off her keyboard). Then after about 18 months, the HP crashed (My wife's crashed after 2 years).

My Toshiba held up better than the HP; after about 6 months I noticed a green line that split my screen into 2. I got it fixed and then it was the battery. I changed it and then after 2 years, it began showing symptoms it was going to crash, which it did after another 3 months.

My DELL? Don't even get me started, I used it for 3 months and parked it under my office table. I haven't touched it since then.

I finally convinced myself to buy a a MacPro ($2,300) almost 3 years ago and guess what? I have not had ONE single problem. Not One. My wife got hers 2 years ago and guess what again? Not ONE single issue (apart from her machine being slow at some point, which was due to the fact that she was not updating her OS patches. Once we updated her Mac's OS, it worked just fine).

Needless to say, I am never going back to a HP or Toshiba. I would rather pay $2300 and use my laptop without issues for 3-4 years, than buy a HP for $1600 and change it every 18 months. The apple OS is also a lot stable than Windows. Does my Mac freeze sometimes? YES, but very infrequently. I can't remember the last time I had to reboot my Mac because it was not responding. I can't say that for any windows machine.