So, your are saying that all Mac fanboys are hopeless nerds?
Does that mean that those Mac vs PC ads violate the truth in advertising laws?
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So, your are saying that all Mac fanboys are hopeless nerds?
Does that mean that those Mac vs PC ads violate the truth in advertising laws?
Not really since thats for the 8 core penryn model with 8800 graphics card and 2GB of ram.
Yes, really. That price is too expensive, given the supposed hardware specs. 8-core Penryn models are the same price as Woodcrests, on average. An 8800GT costs less than $250.00 and FB-DIMMs are cheaper than they were over a year ago.
That quoted price would only reflect Apple's assertion that their buyers are ignorant when it comes to component pricing. (Case in point: MBP upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 GHz costs $250.00). Of course, anyone dumb enough to configure a MBP with a 2.6 CPU for that outrageous upgrade price deserves to be fleeced.
I don't know what type of crack Apple's marketing department is smoking, but every one of their BTO options on pretty much every Mac is insulting to the informed consumer. And, as of today, they are still charging $400.00 for a nearly three-year-old EOL'd x1900xt.
You guys are crazy. I wouldn't doubt that this guy at the apple store doesn't know jack about the new update. He is probably a clown that was trying to be cool. Nontheless it still happened and I was just reporting back to you guys what she was told. I wasn't aware that everytime a new update is on the horizon that someone pulls out the ol I talked to a guy at the mac store bit, but take it for what it is but when they do happen to come out and they are in fact $3349 I think that would be pretty funny
oh, and you heard it here first
Yeah right...... And you joined MR forums yesterday just to tell us all about it.
Actually, according to this site the 2.6 ghz upgrade is a 38% performance increase - Well worth the price in my opinion. I actually described the details of this here, but the basic gist is that you are actually getting a Core 2 Extreme when you buy the 2.6 ghz upgrade and thus makes this a pretty sweet little upgrade.
