Fwd: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

[Jefferson Kirkland]

Ok, I linked the wrong one, sorry.  The dual core was about $100 more, but
that's still way less than the $599 low end price of the mini.  Plus, I
really don't care about the size of the thing, but since it was brought up,
why would I want to pay so much more for (yet again) less?  I would rather
have a machine like a desktop that I can extend personally.



On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, OK? Im Deluxe!
<mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu<mwl%2Bgnhlug at alumni.unh.edu>
> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Jefferson Kirkland wrote:
> > While I am sure the Mac Mini is a nice machine, I can still get more
> machine
> > for less.  Take a look at this
> > machine<
> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9170835&type=product&id=1218043607320
> >at
> > Best Buy.  As you can see, It has more of a procecssor, twice the
> > ram, a slightly bigger hard drive and again, its less than half
> > the price of a base Mac Mini.  If the didn't charge so much for
> > their proprietary hardware, they might outsell the competition and
> > beat them on price.
>
> I'm hardly an Apple apologist (I don't even like MacOS, can't stand
> the interface restrictions), but lets please try to be realistic
> here.
>
> The linked machine isn't even remotely comparable to a mini.
> At 14.5x7.2x16.1, it is nearly 20 times the size of the mini.
> Personally, I'd prefer the mini's dual-core intel processor to the
> single core athlon in the linked machine.  The emachine draws more
> power, so will cost more to run over the lifetime of the machine.
> The mini includes firewire, wifi and bluetooth, the emachine does
> not.  OTOH, the emachine comes with a keyboard and mouse, and has a
> few available PCI-E slots, while the mini has none.
>
> > I agree with Joseph's comment that they should get out of the hardware
> > business and as a whole, concentrate on the OS and let people buy their
> own
> > machines.  We, as consumers would certainly save some serious $$$ that
> way.
>
> They've tried that a couple times that I can remember, and it never
> worked out well.
>
> A big part of the value of the Mac is that the hardware and software
> are designed to work well together.  Letting people build their own
> MacOS machines would lead either to the sort of driver compatability
> hell that Windows has, or to a HCL that basically boils down to
> "buy Apple hardware".  The first would lose one of Apple's few real
> competitive advantages, the second isn't really any different than
> what we've got now, but would increase Apple's support costs.
>
>  -- mike
>
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