Even if it’s old it’s still overpriced as shit.
I’ve tackled this before. It’s not overpriced.
Care to link me to the post in which you proved that?
I can.
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/956362
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/956362
Also, most people don’t buy the Mac Pro. They buy laptops, as every year since about ten years ago, Apple’s sold more laptops than desktops.
Yeah, because you buy a Mac when you want to overpay to browse Facebook and write your manuscript in a Starbucks and not for any real work, in which case you’d buy a PC.
Look in almost any video production, audio production, or other creative work field, and you’ll see that they all use Macs.
Yeah, because they’ve stupidly bought into the absolutely ludicrous and pretentious notion that “Professional Artists use Macs” and the ridiculous “Apple Culture” which was cultivated specifically by Apple to sell computers to people who don’t know any better. My PC will run any of those programs better and with a longer lifetime (due to swapping hardware) than any Mac off the shelf.
I doubt your claims, but even if they are true, professionals like specific software and the environment that the Mac provides. It’s easier to develop pro software for the Mac.
People aren’t “brainwashed” into Apple. I mean, many Apple fans have been bearish on Apple for the past couple of years. It’s just that Apple is the best option.
Oh please, Apple has been trying so hard for ages to cultivate their hip, with it, modern professional image. It’s all they have. And some companies are more worried about looking hip and modern and with-it, so they buy overpriced computers so they can point at the Apple logo and say they are. Companies buy Apple products for the image. Apple would love you to believe that “professionals” use Apple, but big companies like ILM? They use PCs. Windows-based? Probably not (Linux usually), but they sure as hell don’t use Macs to make the effects for just about every movie that’s out there.
People aren’t brainwashed by Apple, they just have bought into Apples BS that professionals use them.
I’m a professional in the graphics industry. I’ve done everything from graphic design to print design to web design and I’ve used Macs extensively in various jobs and at school, and I would take my PC over any Mac, any day. I know many people in my industry who feel the same.
If Apple were to all of a sudden turn to crap in the minds of people who use their products, they would switch away. They wouldn’t be happy about it (since the other options are meddling), but they would. Trust me, I know this firsthand.
Apple doesn’t make bad computers (because the components they use are mostly the same as anything) and I’ve never meant to imply that, they just make overpriced computers, whereas PCs are infinitely more customizable, expandable, powerful, and cheaper.
People buy Apple because they want the Apple image, that’s the way it is.