There was an article on like "Switching to Macs" (it's a blog, but not really an overly Mac biased one) that had the cost breakdown to try and get the hardware that macs come standard with in a PC. Basically, they came to the conclusion that macs are not overpriced and are often under the price of a PC. Problem being that a lot of the standard stuff on a mac folks like parents wouldn't necessarily need/want.
I think the market share is bigger than that now. Like 5-8% or something like. And if you look at market share by generation, macs are winning teens and college hands down. In about 10 years, that will be HUGE.
If you really want to try putting OSX on a machine, I'm probably gonna buy the family pack of licenses and you may use one of those for $40 (I'll even burn a dvd if the software allows).
Oh, and I don't know about new Intel systems, but as I was looking for RAM for my mom's powerbook I noticed that there weren't a lot of options, so perhaps it is different (far fewer than when I went looking for the Dell). It was 200 Pin SODIMM DDR PC27000 Ram.
If I knew that OS X would work on a PC I'd jump on that, but I'm pretty sure it's not that easy at the moment.
I'm certain a Mac is more feature rich than my ~$600 Dell, but like you said, most people don't care. When it's just "that thing that takes me to the Internet" no one really needs fancy hardware. Yet OS X would be a lot more friendly to that crowd than Windows.
A generation raised on iPods certainly will be friendly to Macs. It just seems like they could do more to push the issue. I mean, 10 years from now it might all be a moot point. Everything will be written in some cross platform language (Java except better?) so that your system won't matter. Or it'll all be web based, whatever that will mean in 10 years.
I think the market share is bigger than that now. Like 5-8% or something like. And if you look at market share by generation, macs are winning teens and college hands down. In about 10 years, that will be HUGE.
If you really want to try putting OSX on a machine, I'm probably gonna buy the family pack of licenses and you may use one of those for $40 (I'll even burn a dvd if the software allows).
Oh, and I don't know about new Intel systems, but as I was looking for RAM for my mom's powerbook I noticed that there weren't a lot of options, so perhaps it is different (far fewer than when I went looking for the Dell). It was 200 Pin SODIMM DDR PC27000 Ram.
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I'm certain a Mac is more feature rich than my ~$600 Dell, but like you said, most people don't care. When it's just "that thing that takes me to the Internet" no one really needs fancy hardware. Yet OS X would be a lot more friendly to that crowd than Windows.
A generation raised on iPods certainly will be friendly to Macs. It just seems like they could do more to push the issue. I mean, 10 years from now it might all be a moot point. Everything will be written in some cross platform language (Java except better?) so that your system won't matter. Or it'll all be web based, whatever that will mean in 10 years.
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