Apple to drop sub-$500 Mac bomb at Expo

ThinkSecret.com ^ | December 28, 2004 | "Nick dePlume"

[dware]

Wal-Mart Breaks Price Barrier with $498 Linux Laptop Running Linspire

Prices will come down. I love the smell of Capitalism in the morning!

[Swordmaker]

Sub $500 MacPING!

As always should you or anyone want to become a member of the Mac Ping List, freepmail the secretary who will add you to the list (I am the secretary) should you want off the secretary will disavow all knowledge you were ever on the list...

[eno_]

A $499 machine with those specs is not a money loser. You could get a PC at Wal Mart for $100 less. Oops, spoke too soon: Wal Mart's cheapest PC these days is $188: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3356850

[eno_]

Running OS X is not difficult. I have heard positive things about Panther running on ancient slow iBooks with small memory configurations.

[dennisw]

Good move by Apple though I won't need or want one. 

Still, this a low ball priced Apple computer which most people will need to upgrade to be worth a dang. Below is what I would spend good money on:

DellSB - Dimension 3000 w/ 2.8Ghz P4, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, 80GB HD, 48x CD-RW, and 2 Year Warranty for $349 after Rebate w/ FREE Shipping!
Instant $90 discount and $100 rebate! You`re getting the Intel Pentium 4 Processor (2.80GHz, 533 FSB), 512MB of dual channel DDR SDRAM ($50 value), 80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive ($30 value), 48x CD-RW Drive ($50 value), 10/100 networking, Windows XP Home and 2 year warranty ($139 value) to boot! This is a great choice for basic computing (no AGP slot, but you can upgrade to a different PCI video card later).

http://www.gotapex.com/

 

[BunnySlippers]

Thanks for posting this. Good morning. :)

[dennisw]

That's bare bones with no hard drive, no CD ROM, no floppy, not enough memory .... What's the OS?

[eno_]

OS? What, you don't have a knoppix disk in your briefcase? (Uh, for data recovery purposes, yeah.)

[papertyger]

Be still my beating heart!

Maybe now I'll be able to talk my Mother in Law into off-loading her POS Gateway.

The existence of that thing is an offense to my wireless home network.

[papertyger]

Better start planning your second career.

I figure you've got ten more years, give or take.

[papertyger]

What, are you kidding? "Most" people think that Dell Holiday commercial is funny for a *reason*.

[tubebender]

Did any tech companies have manufacturing plants in the area of the earthquake and tsunami?

[Rodney King]

With iPod-savvy Windows users clearly in its sights, Apple is expected to announce a bare bones, G4-based iMac without a display at Mac Expo on January 11 that will retail for $499, highly reliable sources have confirmed to Think Secret.

Uh, it doesn't have a monitor. This is not a sub $500 Mac. What's next, selling just the keyboard for $10 and claiming that it is a $10 dollar computer?

[freepy smurf]

Will all of your old software work on your new Mac?

[cowboyway]

Jobs is doing something right. A year ago Apple stock was around 20. It closed at just over 64 yesterday. Once again, I sold too early.

[Mike Fieschko]

http://www.gotapex.com/

There are other deals sites with rss feeds: bensbargains.net, dealnews.com, techbargains.com, slickdeals.net. Probably others I don't know about.

Now, if Thunderbird would import opml files.

[B Knotts]

Finally, Apple makes the right decision.

[Mike Fieschko]

Uh, it doesn't have a monitor.

Which is why I asked about KVM switches working with it. (KVM == keyboard video mouse, for sharing between boxen.)

[Tribune7]

ping

[theFIRMbss]

>I could find room for one

You know, if you tell
that dirty, strange looking guy
on the street corner

you've never done drugs,
he will give you a pop free!
The first pop, that is . . .

Similarly, some
stores give away cell phones free . . .
Leave it to APPLE

to charge half-a-K
to play hook-the-people games . . .
Line up folks! Buy in!