[eStar]

I was wondering, Where did all of you purchase your ibooks? I was thinking amazon because of the mail in rebate. Does it make a difference where you buy your ibook? Something is telling me it's wiser to buy one from apple.com...


Unrelated but, I was telling a friend that I was considering buying a mac after being a windows user for at least 10 years...I was telling them the benefits of the mac and she asked me a question I just could not answer "If mac is so great how come no one buys them?" Which got me wondering, Why is it that mac has a very low percentage of the computer market?

[wataru]

People buy Windows
1) because they're ignorant,
2) because they're afraid, or
3) because they have to.

Macs are better machines for the vast majority of home users. Period. But many people just don't know that (ignorance). Or, they might have some inkling, but they're worried that they won't be able to interact with Windows users (ignorance and fear). Don't forget--change is downright frightening for people who don't understand computers. The rest of the people who buy Windows machines do so because they absolutely have to, usually because of Windows-only software they need for their jobs.

And I'm just talking about the average consumer here. Power users who know what they're doing might have any number of reasons to buy Windows, but they're also likely to have more than one box, additionally running Linux and/or OS X.

There was a great quote by someone about how insects far outnumber humans just like Windows users far outnumber Mac users, but numbers alone say nothing about "superiority," however you want to define it. Hopefully someone can dig that up for you.

Basically, your friend is an idiot if he thinks that "Windows must be better because everyone uses it."

[mduell]

If you need any BTO options then go with Apple, otherwise I'd go with Amazon. If you want more RAM go with Amazon and add the RAM yourself; don't pay Apple's prices for memory.

I can't answer why the other 97% of computer users don't buy Macs, but I haven't bought one because I can't run the software that I want on one. Once Apple starts shipping Intel Macs I'll pick one up if I can run Windows on it for my non-OSX apps.

[Turrialba]

naziism was a lot more popular than rational thought in germany in the 30's

look at music, fiction, movies, tv shows etc. popular is not the same as better..

[ibookdave]

the only reason microsoft out sells mac is because about ten million years bill gates coppied the mac opperating system but did it on a colour screen! hence all the numb nuts in this world think that mr gates is a computer genius and buy crappy £200 pc's because it has the latest edition of windows on it! within 3 weeks its out of date or the hardware is so inferior the shiney new pc takes a month to boot!

[Flip500]

ddddddaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmnnnnnnn....... shutdown. 'Cause, I think ibookdave just layed down the law. Yeah... The law has been layed by the new shierf (me spell good not..) in town, ibookdave.





Sorry, couldn't resist...