Amazon Offers Discounted Mac OS X 10.2

WCityMike writes "Apple's decision to offer no upgrade fee to existing Mac OS X users caused a great deal of unrest amidst Macintosh users, but Amazon may have made the argument a bit moot by offering a $50 mail-in rebate, thus bringing the price down to $79 for all users. Check out their listing for 10.2, or the mail-in rebate form. I wonder if, when Apple notices all its orders are coming in through Amazon, they'll get the point?"

Comments

Re:Wow, no upgrade available?

[Drakino]

MS has been charging for point releases for ages, they just hide it better:

Windows 95 - Windows 4.0
Windows 98 - Windows 4.1
Windows ME - Windows 4.9

Windows 2000 - NT 5.0
Windows XP - NT 5.1

OS 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.2 is no different. And 10.0 to 10.1 was free if you had a local store with the update discs, otherwise it was shipping costs from Apple.

After paying over $2000

[Perdo]

Generic hardware at speed x is $500.
Apple hardware at speed x is $2000.

SO, apple users have already paid $1500 just to use OS X.

-or-

Apple users have paid $1371 for a shiny case if OS X only costs $129.

For that price the case better be easy and cook breakfast in the morning.

Pay the full price to Apple directly. They have a great OS and really really need the money for their hardware development team.

Apple has to get the money to convert to Sledgehammer/Nvidia from somewhere.