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Fuqed CompanyApple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
Among the price increases, the base MacBook Air rose $200 to $1,299; the base MacBook Pro increased $300 to $1,999; the entry-level MacBook Neo increased $100 to $699. The iPad Air increased $150 to $749 and the iPad Pro increased $200 to $1,199.
iPhone prices were unchanged, though the company hinted at more increases in a statement.
“We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices,” it said in the statement. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.”
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-p … malertNEWS
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
Costs are unavoidable guys. They have $60 billion cash on their balance sheet, $100 billion annual profit, and 30% gross margins on their hardware and probably 90% profit margins on their app store... but you better pay up because they "reached a point where we need to begin raising prices".
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
Yep I noticed that base Mac Mini went from $599 to $799. And it's time to replace my 10-year-old iMac 27". 
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They've held pricing for a while, Trevor.
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
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They've held pricing for a while, Trevor.
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Remember when a PowerMac 9600 was like $5400 in 1998 
Don't forget your SCSI terminator to keep those electrons from leaking
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VMS.boiRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
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Remember when a PowerMac 9600 was like $5400 in 1998
Don't forget your SCSI terminator to keep those electrons from leaking
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I've actually seen an Apple Lisa in the wild.
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Remember when a PowerMac 9600 was like $5400 in 1998
Don't forget your SCSI terminator to keep those electrons from leaking
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Jasmine Hard Drives?
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Assclown Mini TacosRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
VMS.boi wrote:
I've actually seen an Apple Lisa in the wild.
Did it have a massive 5MB Profile HDD sitting on top of it?
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VMS.boiRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
Assclown Mini Tacos wrote:
Did it have a massive 5MB Profile HDD sitting on top of it?
No. But I did work at a place that used a bed-of-nails circuit board tester that had a 5MB hard drive that was the size of a garbage can lid... you could hear it spool-up like a jet engine.
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Assclown Mini TacosRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
VMS.boi wrote:
No. But I did work at a place that used a bed-of-nails circuit board tester that had a 5MB hard drive that was the size of a garbage can lid... you could hear it spool-up like a jet engine.
Never actually used anything like that - the (physically) largest drive I ever saw running in equipment was an 8" CDC unit (Finch?) we did have a couple of what I think were 14" drives (in a 19" rack formfactor) sitting on a shelf but I never saw them actually run.
That ProFile was the standard Lisa HDD and if you had the money you could get a 10MB version!
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
VMS.boi wrote:
No. But I did work at a place that used a bed-of-nails circuit board tester that had a 5MB hard drive that was the size of a garbage can lid... you could hear it spool-up like a jet engine.
Kinda like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05
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Assclown Mini Tacos wrote:
Never actually used anything like that - the (physically) largest drive I ever saw running in equipment was an 8" CDC unit (Finch?) we did have a couple of what I think were 14" drives (in a 19" rack formfactor) sitting on a shelf but I never saw them actually run.
That ProFile was the standard Lisa HDD and if you had the money you could get a 10MB version!
Lookup DEC RP-06. 150 megabytes, the size of a washing machine. In fact, it looks like a washing machine.
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Fuqed Company wrote:
“We have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices,” it said in the statement. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.”
What a load of shyt
Apple has huge profit margins.
They're raising prices to maximize profits, not because they "need to".
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But their PR spin is ridiculous, as if they're struggling to keep the lights on.
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HeekeeRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
i always say its ok to be expensive if you are good, while Apple has done some idiotic things (dropping the headphone jack to create a gay ass airpods business and the dull yellow oled phone screens can eat my ass for example)
Apple hardware is still very good and the M chips along with their battery life is incredible
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
Heekee wrote:
dropping the headphone jack
Unfortunately, Samsung and other smartphone makers are doing the same thing.
I'm going to have to start buying USB-C wired earbuds.
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
Heekee wrote:
i always say its ok to be expensive if you are good, while Apple has done some idiotic things (dropping the headphone jack to create a gay ass airpods business and the dull yellow oled phone screens can eat my ass for example)
Apple hardware is still very good and the M chips along with their battery life is incredible
The hardware and software quality has been in steady decline since Apple peaked around 2009. OS X Snow Leopard was the tightest OS built since NT 4.
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Assclown Mini TacosRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
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Lookup DEC RP-06. 150 megabytes, the size of a washing machine. In fact, it looks like a washing machine.
That's a pretty big drive for the time - I have a PDP11/34 that has space in the rack for what were apparently a pair of RL02 drives - but the drives themselves are missing and trying to find a functioning one seems challenging.
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Kinda like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK05
I don't think it had removable media like a Bernoulli drive. I did do a bit of work for Iomega back in the day.
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HeekeeRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
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The hardware and software quality has been in steady decline since Apple peaked around 2009. OS X Snow Leopard was the tightest OS built since NT 4.
Wasnt that around the time they switched to x86 intel chips? Too bad, RISC was awesome 
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Re: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
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What a load of shyt
Apple has huge profit margins.
They're raising prices to maximize profits, not because they "need to".
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But their PR spin is ridiculous, as if they're struggling to keep the lights on.
They're raising prices to maintain profit margins. In fact, I'm sure they've already taken a hit on their profit margins by keeping the prices untouched until this point.
Why should they take a hit because component prices have gone up? Pass most of that along. Maybe be the "good guys" and eat some of it, but I don't expect a company to erode their margins because the cost of inputs has gone up.
If you hate Apple because you hate Apple, that's fine. If you hate Apple because they're quite profitable, that's fine too. They just want to maintain their balance sheet as it has been for years and years now.
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Heekee wrote:
Wasnt that around the time they switched to x86 intel chips? Too bad, RISC was awesome
Eh, PPC was hitting the ceiling of what they could do. You couldn't build a laptop with the newest PPC CPUs because they ran too damn hot and required too much power, and as you've seen, laptops have become a pretty important segment of the market.
I think Apple did the right thing switching to Intel, and I think Apple did the right thing again switching to Apple Silicon. The success of Apple Silicon is helping ARM take off in the Windows space, too.
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They're raising prices to maintain profit margins. In fact, I'm sure they've already taken a hit on their profit margins by keeping the prices untouched until this point.
Why should they take a hit because component prices have gone up? Pass most of that along. Maybe be the "good guys" and eat some of it, but I don't expect a company to erode their margins because the cost of inputs has gone up.
If you hate Apple because you hate Apple, that's fine. If you hate Apple because they're quite profitable, that's fine too. They just want to maintain their balance sheet as it has been for years and years now.
Did you even read my post?
I clearly said "Not that there's anything wrong with that."
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HeekeeRe: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
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Eh, PPC was hitting the ceiling of what they could do. You couldn't build a laptop with the newest PPC CPUs because they ran too damn hot and required too much power, and as you've seen, laptops have become a pretty important segment of the market.
I think Apple did the right thing switching to Intel, and I think Apple did the right thing again switching to Apple Silicon. The success of Apple Silicon is helping ARM take off in the Windows space, too.
ah interesting, i always thought risc ran cooler and more efficient because of the lower clock speeds
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Apple has huge profit margins.
They're raising prices to maximize profits, not because they "need to".
Let's go find bargains at MicroCenter:
https://x.com/firstadopter/status/2069957578809872738
https://x.com/firstadopter/status/2069958940947787983
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