Well, wouldn't it being more expensive initially fit with Apple's lower forecast for the next Q?
Did anyone here go to college? Study economics at least one semester or quarter?
Apple cripples Macbooks from 70% to 171% with Leopard with X300 and brings it back down to 70% OPEN GL, no, you could never play a game but you could run motion. But, hey, lets cripple it for the less than 1% marketshare. Good, glad the stock is $89.00, serves them right.
Then they try to release chip firewire in Macbook Pro, Macbook and iMacs, and it caused problems for pro audio and graphics, they fixed it for the macbook pro and still use the non standard in the Macbook and iMac, the standard is Texas Instruments, difference in cost less than .50 cents.
Then they release GLOSSY only for iMacs, (with bad firewire mind you) so no PRO GRAPHIC work unless you get a matte finish.
I can go on and on.
Apple needs to get over itself. The air is a bust, said that last year.
I said two months ago (give me a cookie), they will make them all the same shell and save more money, but still keep the price.
If apple wants to be competitive, they need dedicated GPU across the board, a mid priced headless mac, standard firewire (Texas Instruments) on all machines and price cuts.
Sorry Steve, the market is asking for it (see USB dongle EFIx) and you need to do it and you're closing call centers for iPhones. The economy is bad and Vista is starting to heat up again and $500 machines are getting the job done with gaming allowed, duo core, firewire.