Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 12th Sep 2004 07:33 UTC
Fourteen months ago I wrote an editorial, suggesting that Apple should create an ultra cheap machine to battle the PC world. On that article, I suggested some specs for the hypothetical "Strawberry" computer. As technology is moving on fast, I am now updating these specs. To get the idea though, please make sure you read last year's article before you read on this one.
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<Sure, they won't have the johnny, No Frills/Homebrand purchasing cheapskates such as yourself purchasing their hardware, but they will have the David Jones buying, $249 business shirt wearing crowd buying them, along with all the gizmos and other features.>
Well Apple don't actually make hardware. Everything in a Apple computer except the motherboard, case + CPU is a generic PC product. IBM make the CPUs and the motherboards are made in the same Chinese factories as cheap OEM products.
In Australia they used to sell and service a p.o.s Korean 4x4 called the Ssanyong Musso through Mercedes Benz dealers. It was powered by a license-built version of an obsolete MB engine. The deluded owners used to think it was a MB because it said 'powered by Mercedes Benz' on the tailgate. Some even placed MB badges on their vehicles. Ssanyong owners were very dismayed when the company was taken over by Hyundai and they had to take their vehicles to Hyundai dealers to be serviced.
To use an automotive analogy Apples are Hyundais styled and sold by Alfa Romeo. They then went to the trouble of fitting an engine that requires avgas just to make things a little more interesting and a lot more inconvenient.