Apple *IS* Overpriced
According to today's Apple Store, you can get a LaCie d2 FireWire Drive at a pretty good price. Of course, it also says: “Get TONS of storage (120MB).” Now, I don't wanna pee in anybody's Cheerios here, but… that ain't a whole lot. If the device came in a nice floral or polka-dot pattern, then at least I could forgive the exorbitant price. And in case they decide to change it on me, I've saved a copy of the screen. Please verify my findings ASAP.
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9 Comments
Anonymous
October 7th, 2002
at 10:07pm
Where was the screenshot taken? i Can't seem to find an identical page.
However, I was able to find the product (at least, it looked the same) on their storage store – http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/242/wo/f406d2kOxWlnjPyBLr3/0.3.0.3.27.7.0.CoverPageLeftAccessoriesPromo.1.1.0.3.10.11.3.1.1.0 . It looks like there was a typo, error, or otherwise ambiguous errata.
Anonymous
October 7th, 2002
at 10:10pm
And, apologies to everyone about the unfortunately long URL. I wasn't aware if this weblog commenting system has HTML recognition turned on or off.
Anonymous
October 8th, 2002
at 4:30am
I went to the Apple Store page and it's still showing $269.00 for 120MB. Did you click on the link? It shows 120GB. If it's anything like where I work, two different people were working on each page. Probably a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. :-)
Anonymous
October 8th, 2002
at 5:10am
They must be making up for those 125 GHz Power Macs they were selling yesterday.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/07.12.shtml
Anonymous
October 8th, 2002
at 8:22am
Yup…..stupid typo…..when you click on the firewire drive the link shows it to be 120 GB……that seems like a more resonable price, for that much storage and being a firewire drive.
Anonymous
October 8th, 2002
at 11:48am
125GHz Power Mac's – I knew technology was advancing quickly, but damn! :)
LaCie's site has the d2 at “up to 160GB.” That graphic should've been changed by now – there's no reason it should have gone unnoticed for this long (at least by anyone with control over the site.) Nothing like attention to detail!
Anonymous
October 8th, 2002
at 10:09pm
Umm, i dont know much about that but does anyone know Mister Chris…(i can't spell his last name's) e-mail?
Anonymous
October 8th, 2002
at 10:10pm
Heee…Sorry Chris Pirillo email? I am so silly….
Anonymous
October 9th, 2002
at 4:29am
I wub little typo quirks like that. It's the bloopers of the internet. That was a 120GB drive, looks like the webmaster did a little 'uh-oh' on that graphic. Plus, they haven't switched it over yet. Oh well…