I’m confused, am I getting a deal since I, along with the vast majority of Mac owners, already have Leopard?
Care to take a guess on the percentage of people still running XP compared to still running Tiger on their Intel Macs?
Does $169 really not seem like a decent price for what you get? iLife and iWork are both $79 dollars sets if you buy them separately.
There undoubtedly are still a lot more XP users than there are Tiger users. Not sure what your point is. Ed Bott was just stating PowerPC (or any non-Intel (proprietary)) users were going to be orphaned needing to buy a new Mac. Also stating the cost from Tiger to Snow Leopard isn't a great deal.
$169 isn't that bad especially in essence skipping a generation of an OS in between. My only gripe is the misleading nature of Apple parading this $29 figure and simultaneously burying the $169 cost.