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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85504)	9/27/2009 11:40:17 PM
From: sinclap	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

The Netbook commodity components have fallen in price while maintaining stable retail pricing. Margin is similar to the iTouch. aapl has access to most favorable component pricing due to the iPod/iPhone and Mac business. Seems its more of aapl being stubborn than margin reasons. My primary is a desktop, so no reason for a full fledged laptop that a $300(wal mart) 11.6 screen Acer would be more than enough for my needs.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85504)	9/28/2009 12:11:59 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213182

>>My personal feeling is Apple's way of serving the cheapie and/or netbook markets is to leave OSX essentially unprotected and let people have at it. They are unlikely to make a profit from those things anyway, unless they go to a Microsoft level of non-service.<< WLD - Many, though not all Hackintosh buyers do buy a legitimate copy of Leopard. Apple probably makes more on that sale than they would on a three or four hundred dollar netbook, and without the support costs. A win-win for them. And then, as you say, they get the advertising benefit. - Allen

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85504)	9/28/2009 3:41:43 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

I think Win-Lose-Draw hit the nail on the head here and I agree with Allen. The profits on a super low budget book computer is all in the software, especially when you don't have to provide phone support. Costs Apple what about $3 to manufacture a box of installer disks? That's a pretty huge profit margin with absolutely no customer service liability. Microsoft on the other hand has to support every crappy computer every computer illiterate plebeian installs Vista on, and you KNOW that is costing them a pile of money. Actually it's pretty ingenious, if it is intentional, and after giving it some thought, I think it's pretty likely it IS intentional. Apple really hasn't done much to stop hackintoshes, if anything. I can't remember any lawsuits or legal threats. Anyone smart enough to hack a Mac, probably is capable of making enough money to buy Macs, probably has other Macs, and recommend Macs so very little money lost over all. In fact it seems they win any way you count it. ----- Personally I know I could put OSX on generic computer, but I'm not going to, because the headache and time lost hassling with upgrades or problems etc would not be cost effective. Apple's site STILL sucks. I was trying to find out how much they charge for Leopard. Couldn't do it. Still not working with the latest version of Firefox. Even using Safari their search, and organization sucks.