“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…
yes vista as “awsome“ security to get 200 of 114.0000 and counting viruses for pcs,and i guess mac will be always a safe platform,so i guess this time the world will stick with a mac.
OK, confused a little here. Is it the young skinny Ann Nicole? The later with the weight? Or the skinny again? And will she be topless and gagged?
yasss first post!! vista sucks!
My friend:
In the UK you get hald a pound for a dollar;
In America it costs $2 dollars to buy a UK pound;
9,779.01 british pounds is actually just about US$ 19,500 american dollars.
Think about.
In your motherland. In the hip British Island —
— in the United Kindow . . .
Real people with real I.T. jobs pay US$ 19,500 for a computer capable of running Windows Vista.
We love Windows.
We hate Apple.
Long Live the Queen
and our overlord Steve Ballmer.
P.S.: Not even the Beatles like Apple.
I don’t know if they checked the prices before or after the systems hit the shelves, but right before the store opened up on Tuesday to sell those new Windows Vista machines, the prices were all set at $9,999.99 at Office Depot. The reason? So people could not get a jump on prices before the machines actually hit the shelves. It almost sounds to me like this is a similar situation. And this so-called journalist saw this and immediately reported, rather than doing a bit of research first. Modern journalism is such a joke.
Check out dulls pricing for customizing a pc, it actually costs more to load xp. About $50 us and marked very clearly “dell recomends WinXp” There is no recomendation for vista
This is your year Apple don’t blow it… Lick-em with Leopard.
Typo or not, Windows Vista will require a higher end computer to run adequately. That means PC’s in the price range of current mid-range Macs, like the iMac and MacBook Pro. So no more super-cheapo $399 systems, if you want to run Windows Vista in all its “glory.” Apple, on the other hand, can push the price of the low-end Mac down by $100 and have a sub-$500 computer that can run the Mac OS X Leopard fully enabled. Such a system may be a future Mac mini, or a new system that evolves out the iPhone technology.
It looks like Microsoft has given Apple a huge edge in the future low-end personal computer market, by releasing Windows Vista with its high-end system requirements.
I’m looking forward to running Vista… on my MBP 17″ Core 2 Duo G.
G is the version that has N, but is locked by Apple.
Unlike most, I love trying out the latest and greatest. I’d be snobby if I just wrote it off without knowing much about it. So… Vista here I come. Well, maybe in a couple months when I can grab one of the OEM versions. The price is too high for me. 🙁
Zune Tang, Zune Tang??? Are you there Zune Tang?
Zune Tang told me just this morning that he would willingly pay $20,000 for a Dell running Vista. Apparently its the only operating system with parental controls. I heard Bill say so on the tele just the other day.
You gotta expect to pay for all that fabulous WOW factor innovation stuff.
Actually, I heard Bill is backing down on that statement now. He is now saying its the first operating system since 2005 with parental controls. Or was it the last operating system with parental controls. He seemed a bit flustered there for a minute. Perhaps he meant panty control. No, that’s a feature of Zune music transmission. Squirtability. Yes thats it, Squirtability is the new panty control for Windows Vista/Zune integration.
Actually I think its all a lot of nonsense. I havent seen Vista yet. Someone said it was like a pig with lipstick on. Now that would be cool. A made-up pig. WOW WOW WOW WOW. They really know how to get you excited over there in Seattle don’t they…
And, Gee, they must have made an absolute KILLING in London. With all those people queued up to buy Vista at midnight on launch date. So many people. Bill was there. Steve was there too I hear. And Steve’s Mum. A veritable busload of people arrived apparently. Some bus with Seattle plates showed up and all these people poured out and stood in the pouring rain pointing little brown boxes at each other and going WOW WOW WOW WOW.
There were a few empty seats on the bus though I noticed. Still we won’t say much about that. Perhaps they needed the space for all their Vista packages.
A pig with lipstick. Now that really is innovative. Who would have thought of that. WOW. I mean WOW WOW WOW!!!
I’m an Aussie so that works out around 30 grand. Suddenly a Mac tower with 16 gig of ram seems reachable.
Man if this is true, and Mac/PC prices are starting to level out, then Apple better get some games on the boil pronto.
I’ve got a G3 I bought in 2000/2001. It runs Tiger like a dream. No upgrading of ram, nothing. Ok now is probably the time to upgrade my machine. Only because they are now intel and a lot of the older software will need to be UB.
But it’s funny how one of the first reasons people scorn Apple is because of the price. At work I use a G4 500mHz (the first G4 they made) it’s still ticking today after almost 10 years. All my PC co workers have to be upgraded every four years to keep up. WTF? You get what you pay for. Hopefully the tide is turning.
Here’s a radical idea, Apple should GIVE at least one Mac to every school in, ok not the world so let’s say the US, that will give the kids a chance to at least play with the thing and open people eys a bit. Oh and don’t forget the Mac will run Vista as well, if you realy need, for a lot cheaper.
@TowerTone… Too funny. I would rather see a young skinny Anna Nicoleand a-bottle-full-in-front-of-me than have a full-frontal-lobotomy, Hic….
The Register a sleazy online rag
…”Get prepared to fork out a wallet-thrashing £9,999 for the pleasure, if prices down at PC World are anything to go by:(SHE MAKES IT SOUNDS AS IF SHE GOT OFF HER ASS AND WENT DOWN TO THE SHOP … NOT !!) 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].” —–
So minus the £219.99 for Vista it’s a bargin at £9559.02 [$18,532.07]
Typo.
>Ralp wrote: At work I use a G4 500mHz (the first G4 they made) it’s still ticking today after almost 10 years. All my PC co workers have to be upgraded every four years to keep up. WTF?
At work we trashed all our G3s when the G4s came out. You’ve gotta be dreamin’ to say it runs OSX like a dream. Do some benchmarks and get back to us on that. Boot time? Apps open at once? Copy/burn CDs & DVDs…. even basic things would be hard to call this a dream machine…
On a personal note, I’ve got a super old Gateway 2000 – circa 1994 – that runs XP pretty well. It was relegated to surfing the web and word processing a couple of years ago. I’ve since given it to my niece for her education programs…. still runs.
A dream machine this 1994 box is not, but it still works as does your year 2000 Mac.
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I can say this because I own a 17″ MBP Core 2 Duo G
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MPC guy,
my wife uses a 2000 iMac G3/400 DVSE, MacOS 10.4.8, on a daily basis. It’s not screaming fast, mind you, but completely usable.
A 2000 iBook G3/300 is a different story, due to the small hard drive, limited memory and lack of fast interfaces. Still, it’s in use.
But a real G3, aka Tuppermac, at least if it’s ≥350 MHz, has no problems at all, running with the Tiger. You can max out the RAM at 1024 MB and put in an 80-120 GB hard drive. Also, most G3s can be tweaked to run a bit faster by simple re-jumpering of the processor. No, I wouldn’t exchange my C2D iMac against a Tuppermac, but you can still get work done on those nine-year-old machines. Boot time is under one minute; not as fast as an Intel Mac, but okay. And here’s the best: Panther will still support the G3s! Go try Vista on a Pentium III!
Yeah Ok not exactly a dream compared to the current models but I’m basically saying the thing still works pretty well and does all things mentioned albeit a lot slower. The fact that it runs Tiger at all is great.
It seems that the gullibility of some knows no bounds.
Hagar…..
Good for you. It’s awesome when we get so much life out of our machines. I love that mine have lasted me so long as well – whether a PC or a Mac.
I believe the dude your defending was referring to his machines running like a dream. To which I replied he’s got the be dreaming himself!!!
You said I should try Vista on my PIII. I don’t really see the point, as I’ve got a 17″ 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo G computer to use. Why even bother trying to use a 12 year old machine with the latest and greatest!
And…
Are you really suggesting I steal back the computer from my niece? That’s just mean, bud!!! MEANIE!!!
Ralp….
Yeah… I love using Tiger as well myself as well.
Whenever I use XP, I find myself missing so many things about OSX – Expose, Spotlight, etc.
Anyway…. apologies if I came off too harsh.
G’Day to you man!