CamaroMullet said:
As with most stores, newegg sticks an "original" price to make consumers think they are getting an awesome deal. I don't disagree that Apples pricing is "better" for what you get than in previous years. The thunderbolt port I don't see being a huge selling point at this time. I mean, IF thunderbolt becomes main stream, we are still years away from it doing so. By that time this generation of iMacs will be replaced with something else.
I just think that Apple has always taken advantage of it's pc customer base. The low end imac isn't suited for power computing, it's suited for light gaming ( and very limited selection of games at that ) and web surfing...day to day tasks. Certainly, you would agree, you could do the same tasks on a 600 dollar laptop couldn't you? Apple people are Apple people though, I have several relatives that don't touch windows pcs. Itunes is for music, safari is for web surfing, ichat is for video conferencing, they don't know anything else. Is it good or bad? I dunno, but it sorta sounds like communism to me.