Apple has stuck to its pricing guns, denied to make laptop price lower than $999. But the question is that is the Macbook best deal in $999 ? Other inexpensive PCs like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer, and Toshiba is popular with consumers in the price range.
Now if we started with configuration The 13-inch Mac Book specs include a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics processor, a 250GB hard disk drive, 8x DVD-R DL/DVD-RW drive, Web cam, and Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.
Where Dell Inspiron model: I1545-3232OBK providing a 2.3GHz Intel Pentium processor T4500 (dual-core), 15.6-inch Display, 2GB Memory, a 250GB HDD, DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, and Windows 7 Home Premium at only $399.
HP Pavilion model: no dv4-2165dx includes a 2.13GHz Core i3 processor, 14-inch display, 4GB DDR3 memory, 500GB HDD (7200 rpm), DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL drive, Intel Core i series HD graphics, web cam, and Windows 7 Home Premium priced in $614.99.
Toshiba is also in the race with model: R705-P25 includes a 2.26GHz Intel Core i3-350M processor, 13.3-inch LED display, 4GB Memory, 500GB HDD, a DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, Web cam, and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium cost $799.99.
And Dell giving a great package with Model: S15Z-3598CPO includes a 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 Processor, ATI Radeon HD 5470 graphics with 1GB dedicated video memory, a 15.6-inch LED display (1366 x 768), 4GB Memory, 500GB HDD (7200RPM), DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, web cam, and Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit in $999.
It is proved that lower cost PCs are more popular than Apple as Apple ranked No. 5 in first-quarter 2010 computer shipments.
But guys Apple is Apple. So it is your decision which one you want to prefer ?
Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20009667-64.html?tag=mncol