[programmer_dude]

Yes, it managed to confuse me. Here's how...

1. I did not notice the M1 was being offered on rent. I assumed it was for sale at the listed price.

2. Since 58.31 € is an unrealistic price for an M1 machine (and since this is a European site) I concluded the site must be using a comma instead of a dot. 5831 € is a realistic price for a Mac afterall.

Unfortunately the site is using a dot for a dot despite being European and the M1 is being offered on rent.

[Doctor_Fegg]

It's not selling you a Mac mini for €58.31. It's letting you rent one for €58.31 a month. That's why it says "monthly". Hetzner is a hosting provider.

[edit: this comment written before the parent comment was edited to include point 1]

[programmer_dude]

The parent comment was posted with point one, the last paragraph was introduced in the edit.

[pantulis]

Love HN's eventual consistency!

[dkersten]

> Unfortunately the site is using a dot for a dot despite being European and the M1 is being offered on rent.

You're on the international version of the site.

If you go to the German version, they quote the price as 58,31 €:

https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple

[Aeolun]

> 5831 € is a realistic price for a Mac afterall

I don’t know where you live, but €5000 is not a realistic price for a mac mini in any place I’ve heard of.

Dots are only used in groups of 3 (unless India, as far as I’m aware).

Anyway, not saying you weren’t confused. But I think it’s fairly easy to figure out that there’s no way the dot in this situation is meant as a thousands seperator.

[vineyardmike]

> 5831 € is a realistic price for a Mac afterall.

Not really... the Mac Pro is famous for its high price, but this explicitly says mac mini which is almost exactly an order of magnitude less than 5831 € .

[programmer_dude]

Hmm, sorry I wouldn't know about that either never purchased an Apple product in my life. Apple is basically a non-entity in India.