[brucejy]

[megasad]

Originally posted by brucejy:
From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...3/ixworld.html

With two million Britons now owning iPod digital music players, Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, was last night preparing to unveil his next project, a computer costing £260.

Jobs, 49, was reported to be planning to show a prototype of the Q88, a bare-bones device with 256 megabytes of memory, aimed at enhancing the lives of people keen to navigate both the music scene and the web, but anxious to keep costs down. With an income last year of £41 million, flamboyant Jobs was lauded for his success with the iPod, and is said to be thinking of showing the new computer at his next trade show on Jan 11.

The Mac development is understood to be much smaller than the current eMac model that sells for £699.

Packed into a 1.7in-thick box, it is designed to attract sales in the low-cost PC market that Apple has hitherto ignored.

Some dang selective/sloppy journalism going on right there; the normal eMac costs £549, not £699 (that's the SuperDrive one), and if the £260 is based on the $499 touted by Think Secret, then simply comparing the UK price of the 40GB iPod photo with the USA one would have revealed that such a machine would sell for £359 (£429 if you go by Apple Insider's $599). So, £120 - £190 cheaper, rather than £440. I deride Hugh Davies' journalistic skills. Or read too many Mac news sites. One or the other.

[LegendaryPinkOx]

"Thats one heavy iMac!" Badum-Ching!

There's just something about that article that oozes lack of credibility.

[wulf]

Well it is from the Telegraph, so one shouldn't expect high-quality journalism

Sounds like he has just rehashed the rumour sites.