Our friend at DealMac.com, Bill Schlosser (Director of Marketing) sent us this really cool comparison. We thought you would enjoy it!
At dealmac, we’ve seen some dramatic price changes since our founding six years ago. To mark our anniversary and the thousands of deals that have crossed our pages, we’ve put together an entertaining summary of some of the best examples of how things have changed — mostly for the better, but sometimes not.
Products 1997 – Present
2x-speed CD burner cost…….. $388
48x-speed CD burner…….. $10
128MB of laptop RAM…….. $1,300
iBook/14-inch screen/800MHz G3/DVD-CDRW…….. $1,300
0.3-megapixel digital camera…….. $400
2-megapixel camera…….. $80
XLR8 604e/225 processor upgrade…….. $970
GigaDesigns G4/800 upgrade…….. $299
Sony Multiscan 15in CRT monitor…….. $350
NEC MultiSync 15in LCD monitor…….. $179
512K L2 cache DIMM…….. $99
512MB PC2700 DIMM…….. $55
Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS…….. $1,499
Samsung ML-1430 laser printer…….. $139
Western Digital 4.3GB SCSI hard drive…….. $499
IBM 120GB EIDE hard drive…….. $103
Apple 6100/DOS Card Compatibility Kit…….. $150
An entire 1GHz PC at WalMart…….. $200
Of course, some things never change:
Adobe Pagemaker 6.0 for Mac…….. $300
Adobe InDesign 2.0 for Mac…….. $312
And some things change in the opposite direction:
MacOS 7.6.1 Upgrade…….. free
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Upgrade……$68
Tim Robertson
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