New Power Mac G5's Released

[Martin]

Apple is preparing for Tiger's release in two days.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050427/sfw044.html?.v=9

Nifty computers, but still overpriced. Tiger Woods surrenders.

[betaflye]

Not overpriced one bit, on the high end you get a dual processor 64-bit workstation running UNIX with a great GUI and excellent developer tools. It's hard not to like Macintosh.

[wtd]

betaflye wrote:

Not overpriced one bit, on the high end you get a dual processor 64-bit workstation running UNIX with a great GUI and excellent developer tools. It's hard not to like Macintosh.

Indeed. They've taken software and hardware that would have cost $30,000 a few years ago and made it available for $3,000, improving it at the same time.

[Martin]

wtd wrote:

Indeed. They've taken software and hardware that would have cost $30,000 a few years ago and made it available for $3,000, improving it at the same time.

Couldn't this be said about 99% of the computer hardware market?

[wtd]

Martin wrote:

wtd wrote:

Indeed. They've taken software and hardware that would have cost $30,000 a few years ago and made it available for $3,000, improving it at the same time.

Couldn't this be said about 99% of the computer hardware market?

Not really, actually. Let's take a look at one example. Video editing. Avid's PC-based workstations are still horrendously expensive and haven't improved much over the years. Meanwhile, Apple makes better software and hardware in the form of Final Cut Pro/Motion/Shake/DVD Studio Pro/Soundtrack and the PowerMac and PowerBook lines, and offers it for less with greater flexibility. What they bought that became Final Cut Pro: $10,000. Final Cut Pro: $1,000. That change happened virtually overnight.

[md]

Video editing is a small aprt of the computing industry, and it's more software related then hardware related these days...

[wtd]

Cornflake wrote:

Video editing is a small aprt of the computing industry, and it's more software related then hardware related these days...

Ok. Software development.

Companies (big important companies and government agencies) were paying tens of thousands to license NeXT's software development tools. Apple comes along, buys NeXT, continues improving their stuff, and sells the OS for $129USD, throwing those same development tools in for free.