gizmodo.com — So your MacBook cost $1500—boo hoo. Thirty years ago, when the average salary was under $18,000, you'd have paid $2638 for an Apple II with 48K of RAM ($7770 in today's dollars). And a cellphone? Waaaay more.
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jfitzpatrickJul 15, 2009
That's his point.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2009
Tell you what, i'll trade you some Israeli diamonds for my 5 year-old Compaq!
macenvyJul 16, 2009
@InsanitationClever, I'll give you that, but no one in their right mind would get within 10 hops of Juniper.
secrityJul 17, 2009
@piieerrrree, The PC was probably running Linux or BSD UNIX, not Windows.
ripleyisdeadJul 22, 2009
"One thing people are right about, there are a bunch of whiny Mac users out there that can never be satisfied"And there are an increasingly large number of whiny Wintel users who love to point out how "overpriced" Macs are.Personally, I love my Mac, I also love my Linux boxes, and although they share the same hardware, I don't love my Windows machines. If I need to get something done on a Linux/BSD machine and I don't have the tool, chances are I can find one with a quick trip to Google, and if one doesn't exist I can whip up a script and expect it to work on most any Linux/BSD distribution I need to use it on without installing any additional software.Honestly, if Jobs would sell branded Apple motherboards that allowed people to build their own Macs piecemeal and legally run a copy of OS X, I think 80% of the people down on Mac would have a change of heart.
hardeep1singhJul 23, 2009
if it wasn't for Microsoft, macs would still be that expensive.