Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
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Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#2Given the CES announcements from Lenovo, Samsung and asus I can only assume 2017 will be even worse for Apple.
Laptop with 25 hrs battery? Give me two please!
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#3Makes sense to me. Because Apple is discontinuing the Macbook Air - the best combination of power, form factor and price - I'm regularly looking at all available alternatives.
Can't really see how they're doing "what's best for the customer" anymore. More like what's best for their bottom line.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#4Given the CES announcements from Lenovo, Samsung and asus I can only assume 2017 will be even worse for Apple. Laptop with 25 hrs battery? Give me two please!
Given the Apple announcements last fall, I can only assume 2017 will be even worse for Apple.
But let's remember that Apple still makes a majority of all the profit in the PC industry.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#5Back when I worked at Apple the dirty secret was that the cheapest models, despite all the marketing of the MacBook Pro, made up the majority of sales.
Back then it was the white plastic MacBook but now it's the 11" MacBook Air that occupies that slot.
That model and its crappy TN screen is vastly inferior and more expensive than similarly-sized ultrabooks. The only redeeming feature it has is MacOS.
Instead of replacing the Air, Apple introduced the MacBook at a premium price point. It seems like a marketing failure to me that a lower spec MacBook (1080p, slower SSD) wasn't released and the Air discontinued.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#6It's not really surprising given the lack of updates.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#7Are there any models from Lenovo/Dell/HP that have a good keyboard (obviously there is some subjectivity here)?
If Lenovo made a model with the thinkpad keyboard from 10 years ago, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#8I can't wait to retire my 2013 MBA and set it aside with my OEM 8800GT (nVidia's iconic desktop GPU). Both represented the best combination of tradeoffs with the tech that was available at the time at a price point that led to ubiquity.
I'm not sure what my next portable computer will be, but if I want it to fit into that criteria of iconic hardware, I doubt it will be an Apple computer.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#9Over the year they declined, but were up YoY in the 4q. Early year declines show people were waiting for an update and then purchased when one came out. We'll have to wait for 1q 2017 numbers to see if the releases keep the trend going back up.
Re: Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
#10Makes sense with Apple's current terrible product line setup. Both the retina MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro are much more niche than their last generation. Also much more confusing as the MacBook Air successor is $500 more than the 13" Air was (The non-touchbar MacBook Pro is the spiritual successor to the air.) The true 13" Pro for 2016 is also $500 more than the last gen.
The 12" MacBook is there...but it is a super niche product compared to the old Air or even the old Pro. It's performance is probably enough for most people, but at that point you could just buy a cheaper windows ultrabook and get similar or better performance for a much lower price.
A huge market for Apple used to be college students. Now in 2017 what Apple laptop do they buy? an underpowered MacBook, or an overpriced pro? The best solution for most is buying an older model, but part of the appeal of buying a Mac is having the "latest" thing.
Then you get to desktops...and there isn't much to say there. Apple just doesn't do them anymore.
This is coming from someone that has used a Mac for the past 10 years and is typing on a 2016 pro. It is nice, but connectivity wise it is too far ahead of its time. In 1-2 years it will be fine, but right now it is just in early adopter territory.