Where does one get advice about Apple products?

On 03/09/2014 08:30 PM, Bruce Sinclair wrote:
In article , TJ wrote:
On 03/05/2014 12:57 AM, nospam wrote:


you get what you pay for.

Not always. Many times you get less than you pay for, often you get more
than you pay for, sometimes what you pay for isn't what you thought it
was, and frequently you pay for more than you'll ever want or need just
because some "expert" told you to.

Agreed. Used to be that price was related to quality - the more you paid, the
better something (usually) was. Not now. I reckon there's no relationship at
all now.
As always, you can pay whatever you like for something ... but sadly, that no
longer even vaguely suggests that the expensive is bette rthan the cheap. And
in neither case (usually) can they be repaired.


Yup. Last November I bought my first tablet, a 10.1-inch 16GB Hannspree,
on sale at Walmart for $129. I could have gone down the street to Best
Buy and purchased a Samsung with similar specs for 3 or 4 times as much,
but would it have been any better at doing what I want to do? Would I
have gotten any more of what I wanted for my hard-earned cash?

I doubt it, judging from posts I've read here and elsewhere.

TJ

On 3/10/14 8:56 AM, TJ wrote:
On 03/09/2014 08:30 PM, Bruce Sinclair wrote:
In article , TJ wrote:
On 03/05/2014 12:57 AM, nospam wrote:


you get what you pay for.

Not always. Many times you get less than you pay for, often you get more
than you pay for, sometimes what you pay for isn't what you thought it
was, and frequently you pay for more than you'll ever want or need just
because some "expert" told you to.

Agreed. Used to be that price was related to quality - the more you paid, the
better something (usually) was. Not now. I reckon there's no relationship at
all now.
As always, you can pay whatever you like for something ... but sadly, that no
longer even vaguely suggests that the expensive is bette rthan the cheap. And
in neither case (usually) can they be repaired.


Yup. Last November I bought my first tablet, a 10.1-inch 16GB Hannspree,
on sale at Walmart for $129. I could have gone down the street to Best
Buy and purchased a Samsung with similar specs for 3 or 4 times as much,
but would it have been any better at doing what I want to do? Would I
have gotten any more of what I wanted for my hard-earned cash?

That depends. If a person chooses to buy a product that does more than
they want, the question of quality and price won't apply when looking
only at the features you want. For someone else, who wants things the
Samsung may do better, maybe screen resolution, and buys the Hannspree
which may have lower resolution, it would apply.

For me, though, the quality component is usually more about construction
of the product. Metal parts instead of plastic parts, giving better
longevity before it falls apart. 10 screws holding the thing together
instead of 3.

I doubt it, judging from posts I've read here and elsewhere.

TJ



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On 03/10/2014 11:25 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 3/10/14 8:56 AM, TJ wrote:

Yup. Last November I bought my first tablet, a 10.1-inch 16GB Hannspree,
on sale at Walmart for $129. I could have gone down the street to Best
Buy and purchased a Samsung with similar specs for 3 or 4 times as much,
but would it have been any better at doing what I want to do? Would I
have gotten any more of what I wanted for my hard-earned cash?

That depends. If a person chooses to buy a product that does more than
they want, the question of quality and price won't apply when looking
only at the features you want. For someone else, who wants things the
Samsung may do better, maybe screen resolution, and buys the Hannspree
which may have lower resolution, it would apply.

For me, though, the quality component is usually more about construction
of the product. Metal parts instead of plastic parts, giving better
longevity before it falls apart. 10 screws holding the thing together
instead of 3.

You can't always tell what's on the inside by the nameplate or what it
looks like on the outside, either. A few years back I bought a 23-inch
Samsung LCD monitor that had been refurbished by a factory-authorized
facility. I've been buying both used and refurbished hardware for years,
and usually have a good experience, but not this time. While the monitor
looked and felt well put together, and had a very nice display, it
lasted only about 16 months before the internal power supply crapped out
because of cheap, inferior capacitors.

My skills are such that I might have been able to repair it, or I might
fail miserably. So I decided to replace it, but I had learned my lesson.
This time I bought a new AOC LED-backlit monitor of the same size,
paying $25 less than I had for the Samsung. This one has a display every
bit as good as the Samsung, but is thinner and lighter because it has an
easily-replaceable external power supply and uses less power to boot. It
has already lasted longer than the Samsung did.

Did I get what I paid for with the Samsung? I don't think so. Did get
what I paid for with the AOC? I think I got much, much more.

TJ