Monopoly money
I meant to blog this when I saw it a couple of weeks before Christmas.
I’d love to know how many copies of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition John Lewis on Oxford Street shifted over the festive period at £450.00 a pop. Yep, really, £450.00 on the shop floor. I seen ‘em do it man.
Let’s see, for that you could get two [sic] Asus EEE laptops from dabs.com at £199.99 each, O’Reilly’s ‘Running Linux’ and ‘Linux in a Nutshell’ from Amazon to help you get started and still have change for a decent pint.
Heh. £450.00 for an operating system! That’s before you buy the computer and any software required to actually make it do anything useful. Simply f***ing incredible.
It’s almost as if they sense that this can’t go on forever, and they’re going for broke before the kid shouts to the crowd “But… but… the emperor’s not wearing any clothes!”