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Raising the prices and offering little new. Thanks Apple!
by wesley 18y ago
Raising the prices and offering little new. Thanks Apple!
- river_styx 18y agoAm I missing something here? According to the article, the prices have fallen or remained the same, and Apple has upgraded all the hardware.
- sjh 18y agoBy chance, I was looking at Mac Minis in the UK online Store this morning (GMT), and the price of the lesser-spec'ed unit was £391. Now the price of the new lesser-spec'ed unit is £499.
- cturner 18y agoIt's a good thing the economist runs its purchasing power against burgers and not Apple hardware! Although that would be interesting for its own reasons.
- pmjordan 18y agoYou're getting screwed by the GBP exchange rate plunge. (some might say: correction, and having lived in the UK during times of the €1.50 pound, I'd tend to agree) Euro prices have stayed the same. And yes, ordering Apple gear via the UK store or UK Amazon was a bargain for mainland Europeans for a while because Apple only seems to adjust for fluctuations when they update products. Shows you what kind of mark-up they're using to be able to afford to do that. On the plus side, you'll be able to get cheap Apple gear from the continent if the pound picks back up.
- sjh 18y agoWithout wishing to belabour the point, the prices for the same unit (the lesser-spec'ed Mac Mini) also seem to have gone up in the Irish and German stores (to pick but two), from €499 to €599.
- pmjordan 18y agoI just checked amazon.de and you're absolutely right, sorry. For some reason I thought the old minis were €599, too. 166MHz and 40GB more, the nvidia chip, and losing the remote are worth €100? Hmm. Nevertheless, around 50% of the GBP 392->599 increase is down to correcting for the new exchange rate. Not that that helps you at all.
- redrobot5050 18y agoMy thoughts exactly. And I've been a mac user for 22 years (since I was six). I was hoping to see something new from the iMac line. Anything. A second display. Upgradeable hard drive. Consumer grade Raid 1 (y'know, like you'd see on a $1500 DELL tower.) Very little to see here. And a high end iMac makes no sense. At that rate, you're almost buying their quad-core tower. (But I suppose at the very high end, people don't buy Mac Pros as often as they do Mac Books, because they're usable for very long periods of time.)
- randallsquared 18y agoThe iMac form factor has its own advantages which offset the extra power of the low-end Mac Pro.
- redrobot5050 18y agoReally? Like what? Like forcing you to throw out the 24 inch LCD when the computer is obsolete? Like a lack of upgradable anything (besides RAM)? The iMac might have a unique form factor, but it doesn't necessarily convey any advantages other than aesthetics.
- randallsquared 18y agoFirst, aesthetics are not negligible. The iMac has at least two fewer cables, is more easily shifted around, doesn't require finding space on the floor for a tower, takes up very little desk space, and is very quickly packed up for overnight or weekend trips. For people who need to take their computers with them a few times a year, but don't want to make the sacrifices or pay the higher costs for a laptop, it's useful. Just speaking for my own category.
- rbanffy 18y agoDon't all iMacs support a second display? Can't you daisy-chain two (or more) external drives in the FW800 port? I do that with FW400 on a PPC iMac. Doesn't OSX support RAID? I am quite sure the server version does. And, you know, that Dell box will have Windows pre-installed. OSX is so much nicer.
- cubicle67 18y agoWhy the downmods? For those outside the US, there's a significant price rise (In Australia, an iMac is now 25% more expensive than it was yesterday) with very little to show for it. I've got some friends who I've told to hold off buying because there was an update due soon, but this is just embarrassing.