Price Deathmatch: Apple MacBook Pro vs. Dell Inspiron E1705
Great little product comparison mikemchargue.com: Price Deathmatch: Apple MacBook Pro vs. Dell Inspiron E1705.
Since the MacBook Pro costs $2,399 and the Dell Inspiron E1705 costs $2,341 when you walk out of the store with it, it looks like it would be the cheaper product by $58.
But not so fast. Some software will probably expire on the Dell and you will need to shell out over $60 to renew it or buy something comparable. At that point, which is likely just a couple months after buy Buy the Dell, the Mac turns out to be cheaper after all.
Then if you really want to get out the TCO brass knuckles, there are other things that tip the value-for-the-price even further in Apple's direction.
Things like: much easier automation of repetitive tasks (even complex ones involving GUI apps) on the Mac than Windows can do, Macs are up-and-running with less configuration effort when you get it home, Macs come with better multimedia software, Macs are lighter, Mac applications are easier to install and uninstall than Windows applications.
In other words, the Windows computer is more labor intensive and in labor sensitive markets like we have today, the professional hours wasted doing extra work translate out to a lot of extra money. At home, people generally are not any more likely to want to dole out free health care to a computer than their employers are to them or the system on their desk.
So, Mac is lighter, cheaper, less work, and more capable. In the real world, that stuff matters.
Since the MacBook Pro costs $2,399 and the Dell Inspiron E1705 costs $2,341 when you walk out of the store with it, it looks like it would be the cheaper product by $58.
But not so fast. Some software will probably expire on the Dell and you will need to shell out over $60 to renew it or buy something comparable. At that point, which is likely just a couple months after buy Buy the Dell, the Mac turns out to be cheaper after all.
Then if you really want to get out the TCO brass knuckles, there are other things that tip the value-for-the-price even further in Apple's direction.
Things like: much easier automation of repetitive tasks (even complex ones involving GUI apps) on the Mac than Windows can do, Macs are up-and-running with less configuration effort when you get it home, Macs come with better multimedia software, Macs are lighter, Mac applications are easier to install and uninstall than Windows applications.
In other words, the Windows computer is more labor intensive and in labor sensitive markets like we have today, the professional hours wasted doing extra work translate out to a lot of extra money. At home, people generally are not any more likely to want to dole out free health care to a computer than their employers are to them or the system on their desk.
So, Mac is lighter, cheaper, less work, and more capable. In the real world, that stuff matters.
posted by John Collins | 4:18 AM
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