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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Apple closes off ALL of their products. This is how they lock in their customers and make money.
Most computer manufacturers design their own motherboards, ever opened up a PC? They are generally pretty customized when from the big players (HP, Dell, Acer) And if by "in-house" you mean in a factory in China where they are made alongside PC's....then you are correct. Apple has a huge profit margin on their products vs PC makers, because their customers follow the "if its shiny and made by apple I will buy it!" mentality. People who do real work on a computer don't use a Mac. (excluding their cult of video editors) My brother does video animation and design, and he uses a PC I built him. 16GB of DDR3 ram, 6 core CPU, mega graphics, tons of storage...and it cost less to build than a lower end iMac. People complain that Windows is updated/released too often, Mac OS is a new release every 2 years or so, this would be an incredible headache in the business world.
I've been using Windows for 15 years and...amazingly...have never had a virus or malware despite running 0 software to prevent it. You end up with those things on your system the same way a person gets an STD. Visiting less-than-clean websites/establishments. Its always the same people who have their computer repeatedly infected. Mac's have security flaws just like any operating system, if more than 10% of people had them, you can bet there'd be a LOT more malware out there targeted at them, its a simple numbers rule.
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So tell me EXACTLY how they "close off their products"?
No they do not all design their own motherboards. Dell and HP use a third party company that they purchase the designs from. The only manufacturer that I know for certain on the PC is Sony that designs in house.
Define profit margins? Its Apple's margins bigger than others or are the others just small? Your comparing a Geo Metro to a Lambo. Which has a higher profit margin you think? Just because one company is better at business at others is NOT a bad thing. Welcome to capitalism!! I would rather buy from a stable secure company. Remember eMachines? Gateway? How did those low profit margins work for them?
"Mega Graphics", "Tons of storage"? Well you just shot any notion of portraying yourself as anything close to being a "PC guru".
If you have to ask why, you further proved that point! lol And thats great that you built him a pro system for less than $700! Good for you!
"People complain that Windows is updated/released too often, Mac OS is a new release every 2 years or so, this would be an incredible headache in the business world." Please explain. Again, if you were an IT PC guru as you seem to want us to think, then the above statement is humorous. Constant 1.0 releases are a big, big pain in the PC world. Why do you think many companies are still running XP? Of course you would know that ANY large corporation never updates right away. This is true both on the Mac and PC side of things. So an update schedule is not very important in the business world. Duh. the problem is with Windows and the incredible amount of "critical updates". Those small pesky ones that can often break things yet seem to be so important and required. Windows has so many that came out any random time of the month they had to settle on a once a month schedule due to so many complaints. How many critical patches does Apple pump out? Maybe 2 or 3 per quarter? And the API architecture used means they rarely (if ever) cause an issue.
"I've been using Windows for 15 years and...amazingly...have never had a virus or malware despite running 0 software to prevent it." I totally believe you on that. But maybe you should try going online with them. Ever hear of port sniffing? Etc? If your computers have been online, they have been infected. Period. Software may get to it quickly and block/prevent damage. But if it landed on the system, its an infection. Its been proven that any new PC pulled out of the box and just plugged in online (and turned on) will be infected within 10 minutes without the user doing anything more than pressing the power on. I can find that report if needed, but its well know among anyone in the PC world so I am sure you read it.
More than 10% do. Try over 20%? Been hearing the whole gloom and doom for years about the Mac. STILL WAITING! Only had one virus on a Mac that I have seem in the past 10 years. You guesses it. Friend went to a porn site and it said to download a codec. It was a trojan. Did not actually do much other than interfere with Quicktime. But that has been the only instance. From what I see, since the vast majority of Mac users dont spend money on protection, even at your claimed 10% it would be a better an easier target than a larger group supposedly locked down. It would even be the ultimate feather in the cap to a hacker to release a Mac virus! Yet, still waiting!