[elchief]

I mean, it's less than the original macintosh (which would be 7k today)

[shrubble]

Not really a fair comparison in that the original Macintosh was competing against systems that were in the same ballpark of pricing. There weren't equivalently specced machines that were 1/7th the price.

[AlexandrB]

That's fine if you're selling a niche product:

> Sales were strong at its initial release on January 24, 1984, at $2,495 (equivalent to $7,000 in 2022), and reached 70,000 units on May 3, 1984.

I think Apple wants to sell more than 70,000 of these things though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K

[zamadatix]

The Vision Pro had more than double that number in the first 10 days of preordering. Estimates are Apple expects to produce ~500k units, I don't know if they'll really sell that many though, the popularity is waning quite quickly.

[pirate787]

That's my thought as well. The price is very fair considering all the tech in it, and historically we paid a lot more for less. My crappy 1997 Fujitsu laptop was $3k in today's dollars.

[timeon]

> My crappy 1997 Fujitsu laptop was $3k in today's dollars.

I bet it was more useful.