Comments on: Apple’s next enclosure material? http://damieng.com/blog/2007/03/21/apples-next-enclosure-material A .NET developer in Redmond Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:08:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: portrait painting http://damieng.com/blog/2007/03/21/apples-next-enclosure-material#comment-5345 portrait painting Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:57:09 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2007/03/21/apples-next-enclosure-material.aspx#comment-5345 Did you mean beryllium? Considering that Apple is thinking of using these cheaper materials will that also mean that their products will come in a cheaper price? If yes, then that will surely be great news especially to Asians whose work rely much on high end computers and laptops. Did you mean beryllium? Considering that Apple is thinking of using these cheaper materials will that also mean that their products will come in a cheaper price? If yes, then that will surely be great news especially to Asians whose work rely much on high end computers and laptops.

]]> By: steve http://damieng.com/blog/2007/03/21/apples-next-enclosure-material#comment-1811 steve Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:54:55 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2007/03/21/apples-next-enclosure-material.aspx#comment-1811 I think the most sensible thing Apple could do is to try to be more than a hardware company. They create some great software but because they insist on it only being available on a small subset of hardware - basically you can choose fairly cheap but not good enough for many people (MacBook) or super-high spec and overpriced (MacBook Pro). Given that the only thing stopping OSX from beating Vista hands-down is application support, I've never understood why they insist on keeping it so tightly to their chest and limiting its use to something like 5% of the population.<br /><br />There needs to be a model smack in between the MacBook and MacBook Pro, with 'good enough' specs that can compete with the likes of the Windows laptops. Or, sell OSX to other hardware manufacturers. Apple's elitist attitude is so limiting - you're either well heeled enough to pay well over the odds for the top-end, or you're a pleb who just wants the cheapo non-Pro version. In my experience the vast majority of people are actually in the middle and Apple don't seem to care about capturing that market even though it's ripe for the taking. I think the most sensible thing Apple could do is to try to be more than a hardware company. They create some great software but because they insist on it only being available on a small subset of hardware – basically you can choose fairly cheap but not good enough for many people (MacBook) or super-high spec and overpriced (MacBook Pro). Given that the only thing stopping OSX from beating Vista hands-down is application support, I’ve never understood why they insist on keeping it so tightly to their chest and limiting its use to something like 5% of the population.

There needs to be a model smack in between the MacBook and MacBook Pro, with ‘good enough’ specs that can compete with the likes of the Windows laptops. Or, sell OSX to other hardware manufacturers. Apple’s elitist attitude is so limiting – you’re either well heeled enough to pay well over the odds for the top-end, or you’re a pleb who just wants the cheapo non-Pro version. In my experience the vast majority of people are actually in the middle and Apple don’t seem to care about capturing that market even though it’s ripe for the taking.

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