Saturday, March 7, 2009

Part 1: The New "Lower Price" Mac Pro!

Ok I have been sitting at home the last couple days recovering from having six teeth removed (4 wisdom teeth and 2 molars) and I thought while I'm doing nothing, I might as well write a blog, since I apparently haven't posted one in about a year and a half according to when I logged in a second ago...

Anyway I decided to write about something nerdy like the new mac pro options from Apple, and how ridiculous the changes are, but just now I decided to choose one ridiculous point at a time and turn them into "parts" (ex. 1, 2, etc.)



As usual, Apple's ridiculous memory prices stand out the most... Now you might look at those prices and think they are a little too high (or you might have no idea what they mean), but they are actually much lower than the last mac pro, well, as long as you don't want to upgrade to 32gb... Wow.

This just goes to show the kind of forward, new age thinking that Apple marketing employs... I mean, most companies try safe, simple techniques like, "buy one get one free", or "two for the price of one" (same thing)... but apple says, we will sell you one for the price of one, but if you want two... well you can have two for the price of eleven. Do the math.

I mean, imagine if I built websites (which I do) and I offered to build you one website for the price of $1,000 (which I would). Then you asked me how much I would charge you to build two websites, and I said $15,000 "straight up" (that's how I talk when I'm doing business)... To which you would say, "Where did you even come up with such a ridiculous number?" or "Did you just say straight up?"

Anyway, you get the point, I use parenthesis way too often.

(This was a pretty pathetic return to blogging, but I'm still hopped up on wisdom teeth drugs!)

10 comments:

David Hodum said...

I am excited to read your next three posts until you quit again. Kidding, but serious. Also, the price of the ram is amplified because to use 32gb you have to use 8 4gb sticks, which are apparently a hot commodity. The prices were somewhat linear when using 2gb sticks... Not that it's still not highway robbery and really stupid.

Jacob Hebert said...

I know, I wrote about that at first but you can get the same 4 gb sticks for less than $100 at other sites. Your mom is a druggie :)

David Hodum said...

At least they put the ram & whatnot in an accessible spot. I've had to completely disassemble older iBooks and iMacs just to put in an airport card or more ram.

Jacob Hebert said...

Yeah Ilove the design and the potential but I will never spend $5,000 on a computer! I should never say never.

Eric and Jen said...

This is like Deja Vu. Also it's ridiculous. Who does David think he's fooling with his Apple propaganda?

Jacob Hebert said...

Whatever when I came up with the joke I said one for the price of $8,000... not 11. I think it will be better received this way :) Also I know! David wants to marry apple.

Eric and Jen said...

Why do you insist on the number of your own comments being exactly equal to everybody else's combined?

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