Re: Apple's ways

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wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:

>Paul Schlyter (pausch@saaf.se) wrote:
>
>: Or we could go one step further still: anything but your own personal
>: supercomputer we could call "cheap junk".
>
>Isn't anything faster than a stock IIgs 'cheap junk'?

IIGS was the last great computer Apple made.  I wouldn't have traded
it in for any 286 (contemporary to the IIGS of the day) or even, in truth,
any 386 or 486.  I say this even though I am currently an avid PC
user.  If Apple had continued with the IIGS concept of a very open
system, I would likely own a Mac today.  Today, we have lots of Mac
models.  But which one is expandable?  Only the G4 Tower, right?
And that model is expensive beyond reason.

There are other examples of good hardware being priced too high.
The Apple Cinema Display, for example, is undoubtedly the best
quality TFT display out there PC or Mac.  Yet what is the price
difference between this fantastic display and the next best PC TFT?
Is the price difference really worth the slightly better performance?
If Apple would lower the price, even just to the level of the
nearest PC competition and make it PC AND Mac compatible,
Apple would make a lot more money off the display.