In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2009-01-24, Stan Horwitz > wrote:
> > In article >,
> > notbob > wrote:
>
> >> The height of absurdity is a Mac owner making despariging remarks about the
> >> hight cost of another platform.
> >
> > Really? I am using a 15" 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro laptop now. It has 2GB RAM,
> > a high res display, a 250GB hard drive, and dual graphics cards. I
> > purchased it nearly a month ago. A laptop with similar specifications
> > and features as mine, but with a Sony, Toshiba, or HP label on it would
> > have been similarly priced.......
>
> Strange. I can find HP lattops with "similar specifications" for less than
> half of what a Macbook Pro costs.

For the functionality, maybe. For someone who wants that MacBook, only
that will do. My daughter bought one recently. It's very pretty. If I
had US$3,000 lying around that I didn't know what else to do with, I'd
buy one, too. Except that I have little use for a laptop.

> That same greed in ol' Steve's marketing plan continues to this day. iPhones
> ....$600!! iPods ....$300! Puh-leeze. Apple's OS pricing is probably the
> only sane aspect of owning an Apple.

My daughter wanted an Iphone, too. At the price, she could do without,
not to mention the monthly fee.

There's a second generation Iphone now, and no exorbitant monthly fee.
She has an Iphone.

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-pho...ones/apple.jsp

US$200, less US$50 if you'll take a refurb.

Ipod? Yeah, they were pretty expensive. Now starting at US$42.99:

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/ipod/...acmall.com/&wt
..mc_id=25635

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA