Why do they still sell the 1.8Ghz Single Powermac in the UK?

I really don't get this.

£858.93 will get you the following Powermac in the Education store:

1.8GHz PowerPC G5
600MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
256MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 4GB SDRAM
80GB Serial ATA
8x SuperDrive
Three PCI Slots
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem

Whereas £790.78 will get you the following iMac in the Education store:

17-inch widescreen LCD
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
600MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load Combo Drive
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem

So for £68.15 less you can get a system with the same specs, plus an extra 256MB RAM, a hard drive double the size, a better graphics card with twice the VRAM not to mention a 17" LCD screen. The only thing that's lacking is the Superdrive. If you spend £19.97 more than the powermac system on an iMac you can get a 2Ghz processor, faster frontside bus and a Superdrive.
I know the Powermacs are more upgradeable but you're only really talking hard drives, graphics cards and memory, two of which can be upgraded on the iMacs.

Really amazes me!!


Phil

No, its not just in the Educational store, they're selling them at £999 in the normal Apple UK store: http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObj...SA9xcMzqNq3nq/0.0.11.1.0.6.23.1.2.1.3.0.0.1.0

I'm a student hence why I was looking through the student pages but the same is true for the non-student store and prices.