Re:2018 Mac Mini Review
by douglaswlance on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:12AM
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Apple uses value-based pricing, not cost-based pricing.
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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review
by robertsd247 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:03AM
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Fair enough, but it "values" the Mac Mini at $799 with a year-old i3 and 8GB of RAM? It valued the last one at $499 and it was 5 years old. I guess what the market will bear is really true...for Apple.
Re:2018 Mac Mini Review
by douglaswlance on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:00PM
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It's not about how much Apple values their products. Value-based pricing is based on how much value the customer gets out of the product.
Re:2018 Mac Mini Review
by robertsd247 on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:18AM
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The customer will not get $799 of value out of a Mac Mini. It will be made obsolete by Apple before that happens. Especially if Apple takes another 4 years to release the next one.
Keep in mind that the old Mini, priced at $499, only had a Laptop Dual Core i5 CPU. The new ones all have Desktop grade Quadcore CPUs in them. This isn't a totally justifiable reason for the price increase, but it is seemingly a large performance increase.