Apple’s $150 IQ test

I’m not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have to hand it to them with the new laptops.  Not points on quality, but on revenue maximizing genius.  Specifically, charging $150 more for a black laptop.  People will pay for the cachet, and charging $150 is just enough to make sure it maintains cachet.  That said, please shoot me if I ever think it’s a good idea for me personally to spend $150 more on a laptop just to get the color I want.

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3 Comments

  1. Shanna Christie
    Posted June 6, 2006 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

    Hmm, once the whole “having a baby” thing calms down, I’ll have to bring
    over my new MacBook Pro and show you first hand the errors
    of your thinking on this matter.
    Now that you have a baby, the whole photo/websight/movie and other multimedia
    capabilities might just sway you. I’ve already converted three others.

  2. Shanna
    Posted June 16, 2006 at 11:54 pm | Permalink

    And if I can’t convince you, perhaps PCWorld will: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,126029,00.asp Yes I did say PCworld

  3. Posted August 1, 2006 at 12:19 am | Permalink

    Heh…this is a road you really don’t want to go down.

    Check out this cartoon:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9612/df961220.jpg

    You’re on the left, I’m on the right. It’s not pretty.

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