Mac OS Price War !!

Interesting article... would this really put the focus back on M$'s recent Ad message- "we're more affordable" ?

I like it - I think that'd be brilliant !!

Don't know about $69 single copy and $99 Family pack, but you could make it $89 and $149...
Compared to hundreds for Windows 7, esp. the Enterprise version. I don't even think MS offers a "Family Pack"... they did kinda under VISTA, but you had to buy the Enterprise version and they'd allow you to buy 2 more copies (3 total) for $50 more each. Than means a 3 pack was $500, compared to Apples $199 Family 5-pack.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more ads on this.

'Snow Leopard' for $69.00 or $89.00 would be cool!
And, considering that the 'edu'-version would pro'lly be $20 cheaper....Great idea!

The are some interesting reader comments....!
E.g: You can't really compare the prices of the OSes since acquiring a version of OS X would require buying a new (Mac) computer (Snow Leopard is Intel only?), etc, etc.

Like you didn't need a new computer to use VISTA?

Not necessarily! The new 'Dell from HeLL' We got in the office has been certified to work with 'Vista'. So we installed XP Pro...

Michael right like Snow its not backwards to say to a G5 - much like Vista

More So
I posted a link before but the new Win7 comes with a long list of intel procs it don't run on either . So ya gotta upgrade the puter if you have one of those intel chips

Minimum requirements for Win7 dont look all that 'demanding' except for the HD space needed. 16/20 GB for the OS?


"1 GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
1 GB of RAM (32-bit); 2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
16 GB of available disk space (32-bit); 20 GB of avaiable disk space (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver"

But weren't there problems getting all of the "features" to work on minimal systems?

I dunno but if I find the link again I'll post it but there is a long list of intel procs that wont work with 7 . These seem to be older ones not the duo's