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America’s Thanksgiving Tech Consumerism Yawn
Posted: 9:39 am
November 20th, 2007
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The consumer yawn over the big “Black Friday” sale grows louder and louder. Interestingly enough, nowhere is this more pronounced than in technology, the one thing people are actually willing to part with big sums of money for.

This year.. looks pretty pathetic. It is dominated by large screen television sets, which by the look of things just look way out of touch. Nobody is sitting around thinking they could use an extra TV in the game room for $1,000 or more. Meanwhile, the “laptops” they are trying to push this holiday season aren’t even appropriate for the third world use – get this, they are selling a Celeron with 512mb ram with Vista for $229. Good lord, and you think people hate Vista now, wait till they crank it on that Celery on battery-saving mode.

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StaceyCochran |

This is one of the biggest reasons people complain about MS…retailers are putting OS’s on underpowered machines in hopes of getting the publics attention. Clients call all the time with “I saw an advertisement for a $299 Dell computer, I want that one!” When you bring the PC, or laptop, up to spec, it is more in the $800-$1,000 range, with no additional software, etc…

Apple has an easier road, they tightly control the hardware their OS is on. Someone spends more on a Mac, then laud over it’s speed and reliability over their underpriced, underpowered PC they are replacing.

If MS did some of the things that Apple does, people would scream “Monoploy!” and “Unfair Trade Practices!!”








 

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