Why are apple so stingy...?

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I mean FFS, a macbook pro ... the pro model ... with 2GB of RAM, 160Gb hard drive and 9400M graphics. I don't mind paying a premium price.. but why so freaking stingy with the specs.

A pro model with 2Gb of RAM...really..what year do Apple think we are living in ?

Aside from a nicer processor and case... this is just a Netbook Ion spec

/Rant off.

BTW ... I am an ibook owner...not an apple hater... just think they have become uncompetitive.

Deag
 
Choose a model with more RAM? Upgrade it yourself? The Pro these days just means it's Unibody with a better screen and a SD card slot.
 
It's a premium product, live with it. The other aspect is that apple don't update products continuously like dell do, the spec upgrades happen every 6-12 months so at the end of cycle they are behind.
 
Ah... ok. I was thinking it was due to Apple fixing the price at a poor £ / $ exchange rate. Maybe the MBP is just uncompetitive cos' it is due an upgrade.

Again, I don't mind a premium price for a premium product... but a premium price for a poverty spec product is where they seem to be at the moment. How much would that extra 2Gb of RAM (4Gb)... or an extra 160Gb of disk space really cost ? Stingy.

Deag.
 
Plus the OS doesn't need like 6 GB of Ram and a 4.0Ghz cpu to run quickly.

I've got a late 2008 Whitebook with a 2.1Ghz C2D and 2GB of ram. Absolutely flies and is way faster browsing and multitasking than my E8400 4GB Vista 64 machine.
 
deaglecat said:
Ah... ok. I was thinking it was due to Apple fixing the price at a poor £ / $ exchange rate. Maybe the MBP is just uncompetitive cos' it is due an upgrade.

Again, I don't mind a premium price for a premium product... but a premium price for a poverty spec product is where they seem to be at the moment. How much would that extra 2Gb of RAM (4Gb)... or an extra 160Gb of disk space really cost ? Stingy.

Deag.
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The exchange rate has never helped and to an extent that's apple protecting themselves against fluctuations.

The second point, you're equating premium with specification, if that's what it means to you then that's fine for you but to me they're different things.

Fact is, even after an upgrade the Macbook Pro 15" will compare badly to, say, a Dell Studio 15. Now compare to it to a quality, professional product like, say, the Dell Precision range or high end latitudes and suddenly it's more evenly matched. If processor speed, memory etc is what matter most to you in a laptop then just don't buy a Mac. Easy solution, they will never compete with Dell's £700 machines.
 
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I am looking at buying a MBP
and to clock the processor from 2..4 to 2.53 was £168
to add another 4 gig ram was £480
the ssd's were about the only thing at a decent price
 
CoxyBoy123 said:
I am looking at buying a MBP
and to clock the processor from 2..4 to 2.53 was £168
to add another 4 gig ram was £480
the ssd's were about the only thing at a decent price
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Erm, that's because they'd rather you buy the standard spec 2.53 with the 9600GT graphics.

If Apple's prices for RAM are too expensive (and they are) then buy it somewhere else.
 
I dont mind doing that, but to me thats not what Apple are all about, to me they are about there quality and service, and there prices arent living up to this reputation
 
It's a free market. If you don't like the product buy something else rather than whingeing on the internets.

I'm getting fed up the back teeth of the "I hate Apple's pricing" threads.
 
your misunderstanding me, i dont mind paying these prices, because i know the quality is going to be good, i would just like to know how they come up with the prices, its quite interesting
 
How can you say you know the quality is good but then say the prices don't live up to it in a different post?

Just seemed a bit contradictory. Also, hardware isn't why you'd primarily buy an Apple. If you want bang for buck hardware wise then buy a Dell or an Acer. If you want a product that looks good, runs great, has a massive battery life, brilliant build quality and very rarely suffers from any software troubles at all then buy a MacBook and pay the premium for all of the above.
 
CoxyBoy123 said:
your misunderstanding me, i dont mind paying these prices, because i know the quality is going to be good, i would just like to know how they come up with the prices, its quite interesting
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As bigredshark said they don't refresh every time something happens in the hardware market. So at the moment the Macbook Pro is closing in on the end of it's lifecycle so the pricing seems quite expensive, but for 4GB DDR3 it probably wasn't far off £400 at the start of the year.

You also have to take into account Apple products hold their value much better than a Dell or HP machine. So even if the initial price seems steep in the long run the price difference probably isn't that far apart.
 
The way I put it sounds wrong i guess, i agree with what you are saying, what i mean is we pay for there qualitynot for their hardware, so why put there hardware prices so high
 
bigredshark said:
It's a premium product, live with it. The other aspect is that apple don't update products continuously like dell do, the spec upgrades happen every 6-12 months so at the end of cycle they are behind.
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Just let me run that through the normality translator.

There we go, here's the translation:

bigredshark said:
It's a overpriced product, if it being overpriced doesn't bother you and you really want a mac, then get on and upgrade the RAM yourself. The other aspect is that apple don't do as much R&D as other companies do, and are always behind the latest non-apple laptops.
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Epic troll kylew strikes again :rolleyes:

Don't like the prices? Don't buy.
Don't like the spec? Don't buy.
 
kylew said:
Just let me run that through the normality translator.

There we go, here's the translation:
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So what exactly is your point here? Don't like it - buy something else. Like it but can't afford it - tough luck, buy something else. It's a world of freedom in which you can buy whatever you want, that apple have a significant market share with so few different models and higher than average pricing suggests they're doing something right for some people. So what exactly is the point of trolling about it on the internet - make yourself feel better?
 
Meh, as has been said Macs are a premium product. Unfortunately this means that the worth is more psychological than tangible, much like a fashion item. If you don't want to pay those prices, don't. There are more than enough excellent Windows 7 machines as alternatives.
 
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