Buy 43 iPads with the Price of Apple Lisa

The price of Apple Lisa was $9995 when it was introduced first in 1983. If you consider the inflation, it would cost $21,844.85 in today’s market. Today you can buy 43 iPads at $499 each with this amount of money. Considering the inflation today, iPad is less expensive than Apple I ($2,540.07), Macintosh Portable ($11,358.59), Newton Message Pad ($1,048.47), Mac mini ($553.64) and iPhone ($521.49).  The list includes the 1977 Apple II for $4,641.25, 1991 PowerBook 100 for $3,660.90, 1998 iMac G3 for $1,593.91, 2002 eMac for $1,023, and 2006 MacBook for $1,181.25 after adjusting the inflation. Only the cost of first iPod ($488.46) is less than the iPad today.

The Apple iPad that goes on sale this Saturday starts at $499 with 16 gb model and comes with Only Wi-fi connection. When Apple unveiled the plan in Jan for Tablet pc, analysts expected that the price is going to be anywhere between $800 and $1000. Some analysts also thought that the cost may go up to $2000 for the OLED display one.

One analysts found in February that the total cost of iPad components is $219. He also estimated that the most expensive part is the multi-touch 9.7-inch display that costs $80.  Apple A4 processor for iPad that is manufactured by Samsung, was estimated at about $17 per unit and  the price of the 16GB of memory was supposed to be at $29.50.

Nevertheless, all of us are waiting for the big launch of iPad this Saturday. Apple pushed back the ship date by two weeks (April 12) of iPad for those customers who ordered the Tablet through company web site. The company also witnessed the strong demand for iPad accessories like keyboard dock and power adapter, Newton, iPhone.