August 5, 2002

6:59 AM

MacOS X for $82,402.02 CompUSA feels MacOS X is just that good.
posted by Brilliantcrank (18 comments total)

Am I crazy or does that seem a little steep?
posted by ColdChef at 7:01 AM on August 5, 2002

Wow, no wonder the Mac users are pissed off about the upgrade price.
posted by shagoth at 7:03 AM on August 5, 2002

D'oh, already changed. Back to $139.99.
posted by pizzasub at 7:05 AM on August 5, 2002

Am I crazy or does that seem a little steep?
posted by ColdChef at 7:07 AM on August 5, 2002

ColdChef, yes and yes ;-)
posted by DBAPaul at 7:12 AM on August 5, 2002

MacCentral caught a snapshot.


posted by teradome at 8:38 AM on August 5, 2002

Surely they will provide for the permanent archival storage of this invaluable piece of history.
posted by dhartung at 9:13 AM on August 5, 2002

Wonder if anybody pre-ordered at this price?
posted by seanyboy at 9:14 AM on August 5, 2002

i've noticed a few online sellers that also have brick and mortor stores like to astromically jack up the prices of going to be popular items, probably to cxut out the employee perk of buying it before sale date.
posted by the aloha at 9:40 AM on August 5, 2002

uh-oh, looks like Steve is going to get pissed again because somebody spoiled their surprise....

....that's actually the price of the next upgrade
posted by LuxFX at 9:54 AM on August 5, 2002

Does that include shipping?
posted by jonmc at 11:00 AM on August 5, 2002

Clearly Apple's merely trying to make the $129 price seem more reasonable.
posted by kindall at 11:31 AM on August 5, 2002

Obviously, CompUSA uses a Microsoft database system.

Seriously...I wonder how this could have happened. It's such an odd number.
posted by ColdChef at 11:45 AM on August 5, 2002

As someone pointed out at macslash, someone must have typed the expected ship date (8/24/2002) into the price field. But then I noticed that it was also mistyped - otherwise it would be $82,420.02, not $82,402.02. Double d'oh!
posted by madprops at 11:53 AM on August 5, 2002

thanks, madprops...and, again...mad props.
posted by ColdChef at 12:18 PM on August 5, 2002

TYPO DETECTED ON E-COMMERCE SITE

NEWS AT 11
posted by milnak at 2:13 PM on August 5, 2002

somebody (milnak) didn't get a camera.
posted by zpousman at 3:15 PM on August 5, 2002

The Aloha was right. Working in retail, we, for example, had Windows XP at 9999.99 (U.S. of course) before release...
posted by Samizdata at 9:56 PM on August 6, 2002