Helen Evans at VoucherCodes presents an interesting Apple product comparison when correcting for inflation. Apple products since 1976 are compared into today’s market, and it turns out that for the price of the original Lisa one can buy 43 iPads. This is why people were excited about the iPad’s low entry cost, given Apple’s notoriously high prices for first-generation electronics.
Another interesting note is that the Apple Lisa contained a 5 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, while the iPad sports a 1 GHz A4 SOC. That means we have a machine with 200 times the processing power at a fraction of the cost. Moore’s Law anyone?
43 iPads = 1 Apple Lisa
Helen Evans at VoucherCodes presents an interesting Apple product comparison when correcting for inflation. Apple products since 1976 are compared into today’s market, and it turns out that for the price of the original Lisa one can buy 43 iPads. This is why people were excited about the iPad’s low entry cost, given Apple’s notoriously high prices for first-generation electronics.
Another interesting note is that the Apple Lisa contained a 5 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, while the iPad sports a 1 GHz A4 SOC. That means we have a machine with 200 times the processing power at a fraction of the cost. Moore’s Law anyone?