Thanks for nothing, Apple!
Thanks for nothing, Apple!
May 16In my idle moments (of which there are MANY amongst the moments in my average day), I fantasize about transforming my household into a Mac household. I long to embrace the beautiful design of OSX in my home, to get a little Mac Mini I can run as a media center, to have music and video drifting wirelessly through my home. To finally BE somebody, you know?
Unless I hit the Lotto, it ain’t gonna happen. Apple’s new MacBooks are out, and they start at $1099.
$1099?!?!?! I can get a really good PC notebook for easily half that if I shop smart, use rebates, exploit online sales, etc. Hell, I can wait till this Thanksgiving, camp out at a big box retailer, and probably score a decent notebook for $400 tops, if last year’s sales are any indicators. And don’t even get me started on the fine, fine deals one can unearth if you just want a nice tower PC to plug your monitor and keyboard and shit into.
Come ON, Apple. Everybody loves the iPod. But no one’s going to love the Mac in any of its varying forms until you embrace the idea of affordability. Unless you don’t ever WANT to be the “computer of the masses,” and prefer appealing to a tiny sliver of the populace, the tech nerds and/or trend freaks who cannot live without the beauty of an Apple machine. In which case, keep doing what your doing. In fact, make your prices HIGHER, cause folks like that will probably pay it.
