Macworld just slips in under your nose when you have a life

alternateorg on July 17, 2002

Because of my relatively new position as full-time parent, MacWorld Expo NY kind of took me by surprise. Among the new-fangled Apple-riffic items:

  1. 17″ iMac, $100 less than high-end iMac previous
  2. New .Mac services, basically a pay-version of iTools
  3. New iSync, iCal, iChat, iTunes software. iTunes at v3.
  4. iPods: 5,10&20gb models, 5gb $100 cheaper than before. Official Windows support.
  5. Jaguar: OSX 10.2, August 24. $130, which seems like a lot to me just for an upgrade.

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5 Replies to “Macworld just slips in under your nose when you have a life”

  1. SU July 17, 2002 at 2:41 pm

    5. Jaguar: OSX 10.2, August 24. $130, which seems like a lot to me just for an upgrade.

    I don’t like paying this much, either, but Jaguar seems like a big step forward toward a more mature OS. Whether it’s a full price update or a cheap-o upgrade is somewhat arbitrary anyhow. Didn’t they charge full price for the “upgrade” from 8.1 -> 8.5? And again for the “upgrade” from 8.6 -> 9.0?

  2. SU July 17, 2002 at 2:42 pm

    Next time, I’ll remember to bring some Paragraph tags over to the party.

  3. kev July 17, 2002 at 3:39 pm

    they did charge for those upgrades, but not as much if you were to buy it outright.

  4. trk July 17, 2002 at 5:28 pm

    Actually, kev, they did… its either up-to-date 19$ purchase (with receipt and those little proof of purchase cards that came with macs) or a full retail purchase for $99 —- Mac OS X has always been $129 hence the $129 “upgrade” price….. we all know we wont buy it anyway. 🙂

  5. SU July 18, 2002 at 2:17 am

    Just be thankful they’re not instituting a registration key scheme à la Windows XP… Infinitely easier to, cough, share, cough, OSX v10.2 😉

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