How Apple arrives at its Macbook Air pricing

Subject: MacBook AIR

Hi,
I just worked out Apple's pricing structure for the MacBook AIR in Europe.

Take the USA price of a MacBook AIR add the price of an AIR ticket USA to Europe and thats the price...

Strange as they are all shipped from Shanghai, and its the same distance to London as New York.

So yet again us Europeans are subsidising those poor American by the price of an iPod Touch (300 dollar) for every MacBook AIR we buy.

Maybe an Asus Eee PC this time, the PowerBook will last a while longer.

Roy

Subject: Save XP? are you kidding

You guys just need to go out and buy a good dual core and a couple of gb of memory; I mean come on get over it...

vista rocks

and XP? I _HATE_ Xp... I mean.. Windows 2000 was where it was at; i was ready for some new artsy-fartsy frilly operating system

Aaron Kempf

Subject: Sun makes MySQL theirs

Sounds like they've been utilizing the "Web Economy Bullshit Generator", which is both hilarious and a highly useful tool. In case you haven't had a field day with it yet, check it out:

http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html

You can basically replace an entire marketing division and your CEO with the click on a button. Looks like Sun knows where to look.

DJ Krypplephite

Subject: olpc affair

<otellini>
"you cant have a 'monopoly' on kids"
but you can on cpu's mwahaha<\>

Greig Aitken

Subject: Our Falling Stock Price

Oh Cher Price, Cher Price
How I wish to Honor Thee
When Our Stock was a-rising
You praised us at AMD

I want to thank you now
As Our "Cher Price" drops towards zero
For not uttering a word
To our fanboys who still think I'm their Hero.

We may have screwed up badly
Like Britain's Royalty
But you hide our huge disasters
In a show of AMD Loyalty

Suing and Puking-From-My-Gut, Intel Screwed Me Up ! -Bowing Down To Mecca - And Gestapo Raids At Dawn,
Hector

Subject: Young workers flee IT industry

I've heard that from other IT managers before but whenever I listen to their remarks on the subject I cannot help but comment that if employers were willing to pay a reasonable wage that perhaps they would find employees more willing to stick around and climb the ladder. It all comes down to cost of living vs wages. The fact of the matter is IT work pays dirt these days. If you can't make enough to at least pay for a cheap apartment, a crappy car, food, and a small amount of disposable income then it simply isn't worth the time it takes to do the work. Better to be broke and have plenty of time to do nothing than be just as broke and have no time to do anything. If you look at the wage history vs the cost of living over the past many years you will notice a steep decline in the value of doing IT work. Employers need to buck this trend or find themselves short of IT workers.

WT

Subject: Why report crappy biased testing?

Comparing a Q2 2008 as yet unreleased AMD part to a Q4 2006 Intel part is fair?

The original article is crap, and the author of this inq article should be ashamed to regurgitate the results without even looking into things.

Please do the right thing and fix your article.

Ben Pryor

Subject: Xilleon processors

so it's a Xeon with added ill?

Greig

Subject: Banned book

It seems Abungo.com (they surf it in the congo) is being a little wily with their customers. They might well have banned "children?s fantasy novel The Golden Compass", but they sure haven't banned Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy:

http://abunga.com/?d=search&keywords=dark+materials&x=0&y=0

In fact there are not only two or three different editions, but numerous 'guides' to the trilogy. I get the feeling they're pandering to the crazies, but still not stupid enough to remove a top seller.

meccabilly

Subject: Cow-Abunga

Surely if enough right minded people went to the site (like I just did) and chose to block some form of bible or religious tome. (I find *all* religiion offensive BTW)

Yeh.. it requires a registration, but not a purchase it seems.!
:-)

fragula

Subject: banning

I say we get on and ban harry potter! It'll be a shot across the bow.

Glen

Subject: you are credulous sir

Nelson is comparing the new Barcelonas against year-old Clovertown systems instead of new Penryn platforms. Didn't AMD have to make an apology for doing something similar last year? Nelson's "guarantee" only guarantees that his results are the results he collected in the test he performed, a scenario not likely to be exactly replicated in practice; and it's "money back", which means he's not independent, he's actually selling AMD platforms.

Yourbestfriendintheworld

Subject: Test claims AMD beats Intel quad core power efficiency

More BS more you guys. Yep! DDR2 is more efficient than FBDDR2. Its almost Amazing that news sight would fail to mention that Intel is releaseing a Server class chipset that uses DDR2/3.

Keep it up. your digging your own grave. Ever half lie you guys print is being collected.

David

Subject: inflamatory wording

I'm concerned that a supposedly competent journalist, writing informed articles, considers Linux a "renegade" OS.

Given it's reliabilty & uptake in the server market, with support from Sun, IBM, Novell, Oracle, etc, even calling it "alternative" may be unrealistic.
It is a popular, reliable, effective & supported OS, with nothing renegade about it.

P Creso

Subject: asustek

It seems like the asustek thing is bigger news. What does this mean with regards to Asustek products, like motherboards, laptops, etc?

Also, those names are horrible. Pegatron seems to be a Hepatitis C treatment that causes rage:

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/mycues/vpost?id=864472

Glen