Where do you find the $999 price for an entry level eMac?
The cheapest that I found was $1,249.
TIA,
Sushi
On Tue, 30 April 2002, Stephen Jendraszak wrote
>
> Apple has netted millions of dollars selling IBOOKS to schools
> (including thousands of them to Maine alone). If schools can afford to
> equip students with those, surely they can afford to buy eMacs. Granted,
> it is no where near the majority of schools that can afford this, but
> enough of them can to justify selling them. Apple will be able to make a
> profit off them, I think. For the other schools, as far as I can tell,
> the G3-based iMac is still available. And, of course, everyone seems to
> be ignoring that the base model eMac is a G4 for $999! I mean, it is
> only available to schools, but it is a very good deal, and I am sure
> discount prices are available for big orders. Last but not least, on the
> Education Apple Store, when you are logged in as an institution, you
> have a choice of OS 9 or X as the default OS.
>
> As for comparing it to the G3 iMac... For an institution, the top level
> old iMac costs $900. For $99 more, they get a G4 at 200mHz faster and a
> 17" screen. Sounds fair to me.
>
> sj
>
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 12:32 PM, John Goggan wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > tfbiii_at_nbscomputers.net wrote:
> >>
> >> What about Volume Discounts? Don't you think if a School District
> >> buys 200 systems, that Apple will give them a break?
> >
> > I know of very, very few districts that would ever be able to afford
> > buying
> > 200 machines at a time. And, of those, I don't know of any that could
> > pull it
> > off doing it with Macs.
> >
> > Basically, any districts that I know of that have that kind of cash,
> > also have
> > a very active and vocal local support (parents, businesses, and so on)
> > that
> > would never let them buy that number of Macs in this day and age...
> > It's sad,
> > but it's the truth.
> >
> > In fact, I'd find it hard to recommend myself. I mean, regardless of
> > how
> > cool/awesome/whatever someone might think some current Mac is, I'm not
> > sure
> > I'd recommend a large body of students grow up using them at school.
> > It just
> > isn't likely to be what they will be using later...
> >
> > - John...
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