Quit Whining!

[iindigo]

So the consumer is wrong and Apple is right?

In a sense, yes. People need to get the idea that "cheaper is always better" out of their heads - of course it's always good to get the most for your money, but when it starts drastically cutting into the quality of what you're buying, you really need to sit back and ask yourself if the sacrifice is really worth the money savings.

It also wouldn't hurt more consumers to adopt longer usage cycles. Even when Apple's prices are in fact marked up too far, it doesn't affect me much at all simply because I buy one hell of a machine and then use it into the ground for the next 3-5 years. It allows me to get my money's worth out of the machine several times over.

Personally, I think all this would be solved if Apple would nuke the higher-end minis and replace them with a reincarnation of the G4 Cube (complete with upgradability) and start it at around ~$700.

 

[Eidorian]

Then do it and move on. Have fun putting Snow Leopard on it and keeping it updated.

Leopard is still better.

Only anecdotal consumers.

I've been caught in the iMac's trap of it's never good enough. It exists to facilitate another iMac purchase.

Now that I have my MacBook, Apple hasn't released a replacement worthy of coughing up the money. The Mac mini is overpriced and the iMac is outrageous but people call it an entry level consumer system? Yesterday 3.06 GHz required over $2,000 and now it's entry level? Anyone trying to resell the previous generation of iMac got the major shaft.

There's plenty of the perception floating around with Apple. Once you get that out of your head you find it tough to buy another Mac unless you write it off as business expense or can manage buying a computer once every 5 years.

Don't get me started on "future proofing" either.

In a sense, yes. People need to get the idea that "cheaper is always better" out of their heads - of course it's always good to get the most for your money, but when it starts drastically cutting into the quality of what you're buying, you really need to sit back and ask yourself if the sacrifice is really worth the money savings.

Where is Apple getting their components and assembly then?