No, Apple's New Mac Pro Isn't Overpriced

Re:No, Apple's New Mac Pro Isn't Overpriced by thebruce87m on Saturday December 14, 2019 @01:11PM (#21791011)

I wish people would stop using the term “overpriced”. Apple sets the price. Their sales targets and subsequent results dictate whether they have priced it appropriately. We will probably never know if it was overpriced.

But we already have a word to describe something that costs a lot: expensive. Really we should be asking if it is good value for money.

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Re:No, Apple's New Mac Pro Isn't Overpriced by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:10PM (#21791859)

According to Merriam-Webster, "overprice" is a word that has been in use since at least 1576 and has always meant "to price too high (relative to its perceived value)".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overprice

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Re:No, Apple's New Mac Pro Isn't Overpriced by thebruce87m on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:36PM (#21792040)

Good info. I wonder if the feeling of “nails on a blackboard” will go away whenever I read it now that I know.

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Re:No, Apple's New Mac Pro Isn't Overpriced by cyphar on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:09PM (#21791433)

> Really we should be asking if it is good value for money.

Which is what the term "overpriced" is almost always referring to. Overpriced is not a synonym of expensive.

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Re:No, Apple's New Mac Pro Isn't Overpriced by thebruce87m on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:56PM (#21791766)

I guess I’ll have to get used to people using terms such as this one, “on accident” etc.

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