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Devious Apple loses a potential convert
I'm an ideal candidate for Apple to tempt into their camp, needing to replace my 4 year-old (Windows) computer. I've only ever used Windows - since Version 3.1.
Visiting their Lakeside store, I appreciated their one-to-one introduction which lasted 30 minutes. The iMac is certainly impressive, and Leopard is superb. The demonstration showed just how fast the combination is.
The units on display for anyone to 'play with' are the future of marketing. Why didn't I buy? Because in my opinion, they are devious. The prices are shown by each computer, but for 'standard' build. I checked every iMac on display & each is fitted with extra RAM that is not shown on the price tag, nor mentioned by the demonstrator. No wonder they seemed fast. And, Apple RAM is exhorbitantly priced.
Imagine going into a garage for a car test-drive. The performance of the 2-litre family hatchback convinces you to buy; but you then discover the vehicle you sampled had a 3-litre engine.
Ron Hughes
Ron, iMacs take standard RAM that's available for the street price, and it's exceedingly easy to build in. There's even instructions how to do it in the otherwise skimpy manual. This is hardly a reason to forgo an otherwise great product (if that's what you think it is).
Posted by Chris | November 15, 2007 10:36 AM
My mature daughter visited the Lakeside Apple store recently and was very impressed with the demonstration and with the amount of information she was given about necessary memory etc for the programmes she runs (at present on a Windows XP laptop), particularly the music program Sibelius
Posted by Terry Collins | November 16, 2007 6:44 PM