XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-14 14:34, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 1/14/26 5:23 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>> it's you who are the dummy, with your haughty attempts to lord   
   >>>>>>> over others, your need to make my age "young" explains this,   
   >>>>>>> you've lived an ordinary life where late 40s isn't that old, well   
   >>>>>>> I'm not claiming it is but it's older for me than it was for you,   
   >>>>>>> it's obvious.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> And yet you cannot see the problem with supporting the contention   
   >>>>>> that the "average selling price" of a Mac is $3,000...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ...with a statement that it "might start approaching" that figure.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Your "calc 2 professor" would be so ashamed.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Why do I need to address that claim?  It's obviously a lot more   
   >>>>> than most pay for a new Mac.  And yet Apple's actual prices are in   
   >>>>> the ballpark.   
   >>>   
   >>>> If it's "obviously a lot more than most pay"...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...then it's "obviously" not the average and the average is   
   >>>> "obviously" "a lot" lower than that.   
   >>>   
   >>> It wasn't my claim.   
   >   
   >> That literally WAS your claim.   
   >   
   >   
   > I never claimed people were paying $3000.  Even by Apple's standards,   
   > that'd be hard to believe.  My point was about the real prices Apple   
   > does charge, the way they gouge on options, with a starting price that's   
   > already high.   
   >   
      
   You claimed in support of the assertion that the AVERAGE selling price   
   of a Mac was around $3,000   
      
   I realize you haven't gotten to basic statistics yet, but for the   
   average of something to be X, there must be amounts X + n.   
      
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