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There is a lot of buzz usually on apple products, with their fans loving them, along with a lot of other people noting how $$$ they can be. Personally after having spending a bit of time with my brother's iPad, I'm pretty impressed with the quality, battery life, and software available for it. I think they're a fair value for people who just want something easy to mess with for games and light internet use. Obviously they're nearly useless for much more than casual/consumptive use, but they fill their niche well.
On the Macs, both desktops and notebooks, I usually find the quality to also be decent, although not enough to warrant the shockingly huge markup vs. competitive PC products. It's most apparent in Mac desktops, where someone that knows what they're doing can build a better PC for half the price, or a PC for the same price that's hugely better. For certain people though, they make enough sense. I think those who have used Macs for years get their money's worth just sticking with what they're used to, rather than having to adapt to a totally different OS. Oh, and then there's those folks who use Macs as PCs
Yeah that makes perfect sense
What brought me to this discussion today though was Sony. For a lot of things (TVs, Car stereos, PS3), their products are at the very least very solid, with some being excellent. When it comes to notebooks though :
YUCK. Can they ever get it right? I honestly have no idea how they are so popular. They totally suck to work on, the designs internally are just ridiculous (some of them have seperate tiny ribbon cables for the mouse pad and mouse buttons, that have almost no slack and can be broken very easily), the specs usually aren't very good, but they do come in colors like pink, which for some reason people actually buy. The prices are just insane on them though. I was at Best Buy yesterday looking at notebooks, and someone was buying the 14" Vaio i3 model for $799! What year is this? The specs weren't very good, and a better-performing and nice looking Toshiba was sitting next to it for $300 less.
Is this just blind brand loyalty? During my time in IT on the consumer end, I saw countless problems with Sony Vaio notebooks, they seemed to represent a disproportionate number of problems based on their numbers in the field. On the corporate support side, I've noticed that almost all large IT departments are smart enough not to attempt to use Sony Vaios for business use, although a handful of my attorney clients have Vaios. At least it brings me extra work, small things on them are always failing. Wireless cards, touchpads, speakers, inverters, etc.
What say you, AT? Sony Vaio line, win or fail?
On the Macs, both desktops and notebooks, I usually find the quality to also be decent, although not enough to warrant the shockingly huge markup vs. competitive PC products. It's most apparent in Mac desktops, where someone that knows what they're doing can build a better PC for half the price, or a PC for the same price that's hugely better. For certain people though, they make enough sense. I think those who have used Macs for years get their money's worth just sticking with what they're used to, rather than having to adapt to a totally different OS. Oh, and then there's those folks who use Macs as PCs
Yeah that makes perfect sense What brought me to this discussion today though was Sony. For a lot of things (TVs, Car stereos, PS3), their products are at the very least very solid, with some being excellent. When it comes to notebooks though :
YUCK. Can they ever get it right? I honestly have no idea how they are so popular. They totally suck to work on, the designs internally are just ridiculous (some of them have seperate tiny ribbon cables for the mouse pad and mouse buttons, that have almost no slack and can be broken very easily), the specs usually aren't very good, but they do come in colors like pink, which for some reason people actually buy. The prices are just insane on them though. I was at Best Buy yesterday looking at notebooks, and someone was buying the 14" Vaio i3 model for $799! What year is this? The specs weren't very good, and a better-performing and nice looking Toshiba was sitting next to it for $300 less.
Is this just blind brand loyalty? During my time in IT on the consumer end, I saw countless problems with Sony Vaio notebooks, they seemed to represent a disproportionate number of problems based on their numbers in the field. On the corporate support side, I've noticed that almost all large IT departments are smart enough not to attempt to use Sony Vaios for business use, although a handful of my attorney clients have Vaios. At least it brings me extra work, small things on them are always failing. Wireless cards, touchpads, speakers, inverters, etc.
What say you, AT? Sony Vaio line, win or fail?
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