Re:IPad's Rivals Can't Beat It on Price
by sliverstorm on Sunday March 06, 2011 @08:05PM
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Isn't this funny? Usually Apple products are ridiculously expensive. Have they ever held the but-it's-cheap card before?
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All of Apple's 'post-PC' products have been competitively priced. And the one exception, the Mac, is hard to compare because almost no PC manufacturers build to a comparably high standard of industrial design. The few that try (eg. Dell Adamo) end up asking similar prices. Plus they aren't singlehandedly funding development of an operating system.
The Mac Mini is cheap.
At various times the iPod was about as 'cheaper than the competition' as the iPad is now.
The iPod touch has been cheap relative to comparable products. The Nintendo 3D hand held is launching at $350 here.
Re:IPad's Rivals Can't Beat It on Price
by sliverstorm on Sunday March 06, 2011 @08:28PM
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The Mac Mini is cheap compared to other Macs. Not compared to comprable computers, IIRC, so long as we are considering performance an important metric.
I don't know if the 3D handheld is a good comparison. It's expensive because it has 3D for goodness sake.
The Mac Mini is a great deal compared to everything that's not at least 3 times larger, especially if you consider performance, because everything else the size of the Mac Mini has an Intel Atom at best.