Re: Does AppleCare?

Jolly Roger wrote:

In article <gcugkr$ig$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
McL <mcl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jolly Roger wrote:

Trollish comment. It's almost as if your agenda was to ignore the real hardware included in the iMac just so you could justify this statement from the beginning.

In order to use the "real hardware included in the iMac", I'd have to spend the price of another iMac.

Proof that Apple's hardware prices really aren't that different than the rest of the industry.

What I meant is that if you want to maximize the value of your investment in a
Mac and you want to bluetooth, firewire and wifi all your equipment, it won't
come for free.

I'd rather have a Core Quad for 33% le$$.

You talk like Apple throws additional hardware into a computer just to artificially raise the price - as if Apple somehow figured out a way to make / get all that extra hardware for free.

Bluetooth devices use low-cost transceiver microchips, so the cost of
manufacturing Bluetooth enabled devices is relatively low. Bluetooth chips are
estimated to cost around $4 to manufacture. As a result, the prices of
consumer Bluetooth devices are low.

<http://www.bluetomorrow.com/content/section/80/128/>

As Steven Fisher notes, Bluetooth is available on $60 phones.

Wifi is included in the cheapest netbooks. Sometimes, it's g, but n is not a
norm yet because stability is a problem and the speed gain is not that important.

As for optical audio or Toslink, it is a technology that was invented by Toshiba in 1983 and presents no real advantage over coax. Coax is shielded and digital is digital, whichever way it travels.

A Fiber Optical Toslink Digital Audio Optic Interface 6 Foot Cable costs $2.65

http://www.colordrives.com/fiber-optical-toslink-6-ft-cable.html

All the frills you're enumerating aren't worth the difference between the Duo
and Quad processors.

Enough discussion with a troll for now.




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