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Return of the Mac
Ben Gutierrez writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay on the Return of the Mac which begins with: 'All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs.' Tim O'Reilly said some similar things in Watching Alpha Geeks . From the article: "My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get."
Before everyone starts to flame me, let me be more specific.
If there was a sub-500usd new mac (that is including monitor, mouse and keyboard), probably I could fork over the cash for one...
But lets be honest, if I can get an AMD system with a 15inch LCD screen, Sempron 2200 proc, and half a gig of ram for about 450usd, how am I gonna convince my wife that I should buy a 600usd mac mini, plus 250usd for the monitor, plus the keyboard and the silly one button mouse?
Any ideas?
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No your an idiot. Dell sells 2.40GHz systems running Windows XP with 17 inch monitors for $299.00. Apple should be able to do something similar. Even if in the short term they only broke even and didn't make a profit, in the long term it would introduce a lot more people to Macs and do a lot to increase their userbase.