On 22 Dec 2011, at 21:32 , Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > the hardware overpriced?
It’s an old canard and it’s not true and it hasn’t been true for years. Even when the MacPro first came out and people were upset about the pricing, I dealt with one company that was looking for Xeon machines and ended up buying Macs without intending to run OS X on them because they couldn’t get equivalent hardware from anyone else. Companies tried to make their own MacBook Air and 1) It wasn’t as good and 2) it cost more. those clones are gone now. When Apple introduces a new model, the pricing is very competitive. Yes, the MacPro is long in the tooth and is *currently* overpriced, but when the current models came out? No, not at all. Try pricing out an i7 all in one with a 27” screen and the footprint and noise of an iMac. Good luck. And we’ve seen how the market has been able to put up one iPad killer after another, except they haven’t been able to move the price point and they haven’t produced something equivalent. Someone posted on USENET a ‘mini killer’ which was about the same price as a Mac mini and was, admittedly, a more powerful machine with more memory. It also sported 4 fans and was *FIFTEEN* times the size. My mini is dead silent and so small you cannot easily see it where it sits. And that’s why I bought it. -- "Making music should not be left to the professionals." - Michelle Shocked _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
