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Amazon Offers Discounted Mac OS X 10.2

Posted by pudge on from the get-the-point-ha-ha-you-funny dept.

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?"

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  1. What is the point? by bellings · · Score: 2, Troll

    I wonder if, when Apple notices all its orders are coming in through Amazon, they'll get the point?

    What is the point? That people like to save money? I'm assuming that there is someone at Apple who doesn't live in a bizarro world 24 hours a day, and therefore already knew that.

    I'm a little more concerned about the editors at this site, who are given thousands of stories to choose from every day, and regularly choose the ones that look like they were written by Signal 11.

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  2. Re:Did it ever occur to anyone . . . by bellings · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course, even $79 is too much to charge someone who already paid for the OS with the prices Apple charges for proprietized, two-year old, commodity hardware.

    Dude, Apple hardware is way more than two years out of date! Microsoft stopped selling One Button Mice like ten years ago! Those apple geeks are such tools, cuz they don't have enough buttons! Get it? It's a pun, on buttons! Ha ha ha! I kill myself!

    I am technologically superior to you, cuz my computer can play games! I've learned a lot more about computers that way than I ever would have learned if I used an apple.

    Also, I get to fuck around with my drivers. That means that I get to click on the icons, while I curse! This, too, has made me learn a lot about computers. Like, you have to curse at them, and sometimes you have to hold down the right mouse button to get at the hidden property pages. Those looser apple geeks could never do that!

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  3. Wow, no upgrade available? by jmd! · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's terrible. Nothing like punishing your early adopters and *paying* beta testers.

    Recently I had been hearing /so/ many good things about OS X, but if I have to pay $129.95 evey six months to keep my OS up to date, I think I'll be sticking with Linux, where up2date and ISOs are free for home users who don't require support.

    (What happened to Apple being a hardware company?)