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Apple to Introduce Cheaper Macs?
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It would be very easy for Apple to cut the price of both Mac Mini models and the lowest price MacBook by $100-150 each without giving away the store.
That would boost immediate sales of "entry-level" Macs and set up future purchases of more expensive models down the road.
It would be very easy for Apple to cut the price of both Mac Mini models and the lowest price MacBook by $100-150 each without giving away the store.
That would boost immediate sales of "entry-level" Macs and set up future purchases of more expensive models down the road.
Q-are they selling any?
Apple sales seem to be down, I would guess that the mini is suffering more than MacBooks.
In this recession, they will not be able to count on Mac users to upgrade as often as they might once have. So they are going to need to convert Microsoft users to Mac and this segment is under pressure from fewer potential consumers (private and professional) willing to spend less money.
It remains to be seen whether Snow Leopard will fulfill everything Apple has promised for it.
I could see Apple cutting prices a bit. That would likely result in a noticeable increase in sales, and clearly Macs have been overpriced for what you get for a while now. But then again, Apple may not want to give the impression that they're being hurt by Microsoft's ad campaign.
Steve Jobs is ROFL right now.
On the other hand, a price adjustment for the Minis and iMacs would seem appropriate as well as welcome
Something no one really mentions...
is that the resale value of any product with an Apple logo on it is vastly superior to any other similar product from different vendors!
I always buy my Mac's used/referbished and within 1 year old, add Applecare if needed and use it until my heart is content to buy another. I then sell it for nearly what I paid for it! I've done this with nearly each product in my signature.
This means I only needed to spend a few hundred bucks to upgrade every few years. This is something most PC users do not get.
I compare it to my 99 Hyundai that I bought brand new for 20k and today it's 1k and my used 04 BMW that I paid 27k for and could easily sell it for 20k anytime I want!
Lower prices... raise prices... doesn't matter because I(we) will still make out in the end.
is that the resale value of any product with an Apple logo on it is vastly superior to any other similar product from different vendors!
I always buy my Mac's used/referbished and within 1 year old, add Applecare if needed and use it until my heart is content to buy another. I then sell it for nearly what I paid for it! I've done this with nearly each product in my signature.
This means I only needed to spend a few hundred bucks to upgrade every few years. This is something most PC users do not get.
I compare it to my 99 Hyundai that I bought brand new for 20k and today it's 1k and my used 04 BMW that I paid 27k for and could easily sell it for 20k anytime I want!
Lower prices... raise prices... doesn't matter because I(we) will still make out in the end.
These price points are somewhat more palatable.
Someone paying Apple's retail prices isn't trying very hard to find a better deal. Those are prices on current hardware.
Still WAY TOO MUCH!
Dropping the price to $1,150 "puts a considerable dent into the cost of owning or switching to a Mac"? You're kidding me, right? That's still twice as much as it would cost to buy a more powerful PC. Absurd. Apple needs to start allowing 3rd parties access to its hardware configurations, then maybe we will see some real price point drops.
Dropping the price to $1,150 "puts a considerable dent into the cost of owning or switching to a Mac"? You're kidding me, right? That's still twice as much as it would cost to buy a more powerful PC. Absurd. Apple needs to start allowing 3rd parties access to its hardware configurations, then maybe we will see some real price point drops.
Want it to happen but it wont. And even if it does ... by the time the reduction, say $150 has gone through Apple's magic currency converter ... 10 is neither here nor there.
Get 'em in cheap!
This is assuming people are going to like what they see. I know I bailed on Macs the minute I turned the power on. The OS works well for a phone, though.
This is assuming people are going to like what they see. I know I bailed on Macs the minute I turned the power on. The OS works well for a phone, though.
Microsoft had a chance to break themselves with vista and they did. they just had their first quarterly loss in something like 20 years.
Well, admittedly, I read that piece on AppleInsider.
That being said, I've said basically the same thing for years! I've been trying to get my mom to switch (maybe if I tell her about Parallels she'll start considering it... heh heh heh).
The main problem: Price. If Apple were to have their prices more in line with comparable Windows machines (like the ads from Micro$oft have been trying to say), then things would be a lot better looking for Apple (and for my mother getting a <5 yr old computer without forcing me to do too much tech support).
BJ
That being said, I've said basically the same thing for years! I've been trying to get my mom to switch (maybe if I tell her about Parallels she'll start considering it... heh heh heh).
The main problem: Price. If Apple were to have their prices more in line with comparable Windows machines (like the ads from Micro$oft have been trying to say), then things would be a lot better looking for Apple (and for my mother getting a <5 yr old computer without forcing me to do too much tech support).
BJ
AppleInsider reports that Apple is preparing to introduce cheaper Macs as soon as this spring. The move reportedly comes in response to consumer buying patterns shifting toward cheaper computers, including those in the netbook category.The report presumes that the pricing changes would appear in the consumer MacBook and iMac lines, although exact details on models and price points remain unknown.AppleInsider claims that the MacBook could see price reductions as part of a minor revision to Apple's notebook lines in the near future.
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Silly talk. Apple is a premium product. Premium products demand premium pricing. There's no such thing, nor will there ever be, a "cheaper" Mac. When it comes to Apple, you will always get what you pay for, and you pay for and get a premium computer product.
What's next? $300 Rolexes and $12,000 BMWs? Not likely.
I love how naive we are...
MacBook versus MacBook Air...the air has LESS but costs more.
MacBook versus MacBook Touch... the touch will have LESS but cost more.
It's just not in Apple's DNA to put out an inexpensive product. Never have, never will. Look at their brand identity...
MacBook versus MacBook Air...the air has LESS but costs more.
MacBook versus MacBook Touch... the touch will have LESS but cost more.
It's just not in Apple's DNA to put out an inexpensive product. Never have, never will. Look at their brand identity...
Kewl, I can't w8 for a reduce in cost and a little upgrade to the current MacBooks.
I'm coming to the USA in less than a month and I wanna have a MacBook!!! I'll work my a$$ of for a MB or MBP this summer. I wanna replace my Hackintosh...
to the current MacBooks.I'm coming to the USA in less than a month and I wanna have a MacBook!!! I'll work my a$$ of for a MB or MBP this summer. I wanna replace my Hackintosh...
Maybe domination was never the plan. Maybe making more money every year was the plan.
Not a chance. The same was said with virtually every new Windows release over the last 20 years, all of which had problems. Microsoft will continue to dominate if only by inertia. Apple offers consumers a choice, not a New World Order.
I really hope Apple don't cut their prices because I would hate to see the UK Mac prices get even higher.
Yes, I know it's because of our worthless currency!
Yes, I know it's because of our worthless currency!
I prefer to have kinda 2 speed in Apple:
a) Lower price and lower quality-specs
b)Same price as now and same quality-specs.
I think most of mac users (me included) turned away from windows cause we got sik of it's probs-instability-and fomatting at least once a year.
I got an iMac 24" as a beginning and after a month I sold all my PC's and got me a macbook pro. I enjoy them a lot cause thei quality is superb and they work fine everyday-all day!
So...I hope apple will keep going with quality and no pc's for the masses
a) Lower price and lower quality-specs
b)Same price as now and same quality-specs.
I think most of mac users (me included) turned away from windows cause we got sik of it's probs-instability-and fomatting at least once a year.
I got an iMac 24" as a beginning and after a month I sold all my PC's and got me a macbook pro. I enjoy them a lot cause thei quality is superb and they work fine everyday-all day!
So...I hope apple will keep going with quality and no pc's for the masses
