“Vista only hit the shelves yesterday, but Microsoft’s new operating system has already sent shockwaves through the PC retail industry,” Tracey Cooper writes for The Register. “Want to get your hands on an Acer desktop bundled with a copy of ‘Genuine MS Windows Vista Premium?'”
MacDailyNews Take: We’d rather undergo a lobotomy performed by Anna Nicole Smith with a rusty corkscrew, but thanks for asking.
Cooper continues, “Get prepared to fork out a wallet-thrashing £9,999 for the pleasure, if prices down at PC World are anything to go by: With Vista retailing at only £219.99, the addition of the operating system has pushed prices sky high with the desktop itself ringing in at a whopping £9779.01 [US$12,667.73].”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TR” for the heads up.]
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$20,000 for a computer? I assume this is a typo!
Haha MS-Fanboys.
MS-PC’s are over-priced and cost to much. Get a Mac.
OK, just read the article. Its obviously a typo on the PC World website and the article is not meant to be taken seriously. f
Billy Gates ran of the stage last night on the Daily Show!
Maybe the audience was going to lynch him?
that makes choosing a computer easier, if cost is the deciding factor. Macs = value for money and exquisite. PC = Expensive and nasty. Has Microsoft shot themselves in the foot, will Gates and Bullmore finally be seen for what they truly are, not to mention liars.
I just tried to configure a machine on the UK apple online store, and at £9,428, the specs are:
Two 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
16GB (8 x 2GB) RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
One 16x SuperDrive
Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse
Mac OS X
Apple Cinema HD Display (30″ flat panel)
Five USB ports
Two FireWire 400 ports
Two FireWire 800 ports
Something seems to be way off in the pricing of that PC.
-jcr
WOW I get 2 Heads up in one day Here is another interesting one from The Reg.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/31/vista_sales/
The shit hasn’t hit the fan yet! But soon!!
TR
Doesn’t look like a joke to me. I see no disclaimer at the end saying anything about it not being serious. Whatever as I’m like MDN and wouldn’t buy it anyways at any price. If anything that will give Apple another point to make people make the switch. The one point that kept people away from Macs might actually have them buying them now if PC prices are going higher because of Vista’s high prices. Microsoft is greedy so I wouldn’t put it past them to charge much higher prices to the OEM manufacturers who bundle Windows with there systems.
They have got to mean £999. I’d love to see pricing like this take shape, but its unrealistic to expect.
Even so, at £999 that Acer will cost US$1,961, and the iMac beats that handily.
John: Its The Register and also a British site. The Brits don’t generally need disclaimers to tell people they’re not being entirely serious, they just get it.
Trust me: The 9,999 pound computer is a mistake on the part of PC World.
“We’d rather undergo a lobotomy performed by Anna Nicole Smith with a rusty corkscrew”? Liars.
I think someone is very confused in the article referenced here.
Typo
Someone got excited and put their comma in the wrong spot a few times.
I wouldn’t give $99 for an Acer (or 99 pounds sterling).
did a quicky price check with full premium business whatever VISTA machine (closest to Tiger) at Dell. $2.8K vs $2.3K for equivalent-ish Mac.
Not included of course is the the new adware/spyware/antivirus crap still to bought…..
A lobotomy performed by Anna Nicole Smith with a rusty corkscrew???
Well, that girl doesn’t know how to use a corkscrew. In fact she doesn’t know what a corkscrew is. And I doubt she can perform an amateur lobotomy even reading some books. Hell, I don’t think she knows what a book is, and, just in case she knew, I doubt she knows how to read.
The only thing she knows is how to count….money, that is (wonder how far can she count)
*****throws chair*****
I’ve seen the first wave of Dell PC ads. I see in the banner “Dell recommends Vista Business edition”. One scans the specs of the obviously low-balled desktop or laptop to see “Vista Home Basic” is bundled. So if you want a more “serious” edition, prepare to pay much more. Apple does it much simpler: Workstation or Server. Life’s too short…
Here’s the link for Gates on The Daily Show:
It’s not really worth watching though. Apple and Mac OS X never come up in the interview.
If you read the comments on below on that same YouTube page, you’ll see some astronomically ignorant idiots defending Gates. Such as:
“PC’s are for people in the real world who need their computer to work like everyone else’s. Macs are for nerds that just want to be different.”
and…
“If it weren’t for Gates you’d all be writing this on paper.”
That last one is my favorite. I have trouble believing that the philistine that wrote it can possibly be over 12 years old.
Good! Maybe this will discourage people from buying windows machines!
And as for buying Vista, I’d rather get a circumcision from Larry the Cable Guy.
wow, now that PCs cost so much I will never buy one again.
It’s gotta be a typo, computers have been that expensive since the Tandy TRS (Trash) 80!
If yo notice, the desktop is the default that came on OS X Jaguar (you can still find it in the desktop section of system prefrences under apple images).
Hey Jon Stewart, what was that all about? I was watching it and couldn’t figure out why he bounced like that.
Anyone notice there’s an ad for Vista right here next to this comment box? At least there is here…peculiar
That’s the price you pay for being faster than OS X
Mac OS X for $129.00 (ALWAYS Ultimate – FULL VERSION – nothing missing)
Microsoft OS “PREMIUM” Home version Vista for $239.95 – – and you don’t get everything.
Now who is over priced?
The price for that Acer model on the http://www.pcworld.co.uk website is as quoted, but I think the Register were just pointing out their typo with the price…