Posted on 12/28/2004 11:09:37 PM PST by HAL9000
I could find room for one.
Bushels.
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A $499 Mac. Apple will sell tons of these things.
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And that's precisely why they won't do it.
This is the standard Mac Expo rumor every year, and every year it doesn't happen. Should, but likely won't.
Ummm. KVM switches'll work?
Right now I'm using a Compaq Presario 1200 Laptop. It is over 3 years old, has a 1.0 GHz processor and I added 128 MB of RAM to it, to bring it up to 160 MB total. 15 GB Hard drive and the biggest feature is the DVD/CD-R/RW combo drive. I'm not selling it or getting a new one for the same reason that you buy a car and drive it until it dies. But, if this thing is as portable as a laptop and sells for $500 - has a faster processor, probably more hard disk space, more RAM and a USB 2.0 connection? I'm game. I don't watch DVDs on my computer anyway.
What they lose on each sale they will make up in volume.
This could be part of a strategy to get back into the schools. Schools seem to have two types of computers these days. New PCs or elderly Macs.
They had better be able to turn a profit on these, though.
Yes, I think so.
Cool. Set it up with Windows or buy an extra Mac Monitor.
Bundling one of these with a new iPod (at an appropriate price point) would open up new markets.
I am still waiting for the audio computer that can fit in a pocket. never mind.
Apple's profit margin should be much better than - for example, Dell's - for a similarily priced item.
Apple doesn't have to split the money with Microsoft. So there's a big profit right there.
Then, Apple's customer support costs should be much lower than the PC clone manufacturers. Mac owners generally have fewer problems than our Wintel counterparts, so we don't need to spend hours on the phone complaining to the Dell dude in India about dead-on-arrival hardware, worms, viruses, spyware, etc.
I might even pop for a sub-$500 Mac.
1.25 Ghz G4? My 4 year old Athlon XP would destroy that.
No, it wouldn't.
At $499...AND it comes pre-installed with and runs OSX!?!?! Unbelievable if they can pull it off.
I guess I can put my plans on hold to upgrade a beige POWER MAC desktop to run OSX...purchased for large sum of $7.99 :0)
Dear Apple Computer:
If you build this, I will purchase one. If you build me a much much nicer one for 800 bucks I'll buy that too.
I won't dump my linux and windows boxes for it but I will buy a Mac at this price.
GET SOME FREAKING GAMES FOR IT AND YOU GOT A DEAL.
no need to dump anything....you can run LINUX AND WINDOWS on your NEW MAC running OSX all at the SAME TIME:)
I have been running LINUX on old PowerMAC for years. Folks don't seem to realize that a 1.2GHZ RISC PowerPC chip compares favorably to any CISC chip running 3GHZ+. And, they don't need a JET ENGINE and oversize heatsink to cool.
No wonder the NAVY and Military have been buying up Apple XSERVE machines like candy.
Of course, everybody knows about the 7th FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER in the world -located at Virginia Tech's TERASCALE Computing Facility. Built entirely out of APPLE MAC G5's for a FRACTION of the cost of other computers...no INTEL or AMD on THAT list ;)
SYSTEM X SUPERCOMPUTER: http://www.tcf.vt.edu/
oppps...Intel ITANIUM..in 5th place...for a discontinued processor ...lol
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