The mini had a combo, I believe, until it was updated in Jan. The Blu-Ray isn't an issue to me, but I can see why it is to some people
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Apple Details Differences in 20" Educational iMac (Mid 2009)
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The mini had a combo, I believe, until it was updated in Jan. The Blu-Ray isn't an issue to me, but I can see why it is to some people
no offense meant but so what?
neither is necessary for educational purposes and it would make "Apple Sense" to strip features from the eMac to keep it from competing with the lowest end iMac.
this is only intended for educational institutions, so don't expect to see it around your friendly neighborhood school
Because giving out educational stuff cheaper is called promotion. It increases chances of exposing your product to future customers. Especially college graduates are likely to be able to afford them, too.
It's the same as the free iPod during Back to School. It only pays for Apple in the long term.
Been there, done that. They wouldn't take them - despite them being loads newer than what they were running..... very frustrating.
Our school uses PCs, however, there are a few Macs in some of the storage (?) rooms if one looks closely.*sigh* as much as I would like iMacs to be part of my institution, I'm not seeing it anytime soon. Maybe in a computer lab (or the famed, hidden-in-the-back-of-the-art-building Mac lab) there might be some; my community college just is finishing two new halls to replace some very old ones. For good reason - on occasion, somebody leaning on a wall would go through it.
I've seen a few eMacs and one iMac G3.
I'd love to know what educational sysadmins they talk to because that config looks like a bowl of nice fresh failsauce for our requirements.
I was referring specifically to removing bluetooth and IR, not letting schools build an iMac from a smorgasbord of parts and components. The educational system low-end Macs have always been low-end Macs with a fixed configuration, IIRC.
Yes. I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that Apple's chosen "educational" configs aren't suitable for the use my college buys macs for.
Right, and the Mac Pros haven't been discontinued.
You're missing the fact that this is a move by Apple to catch a piece of the market for cheap, word processing/simple page layout lab-type computers. This isn't for filling a lab with video editing beasts.
A Mac Pro with WiFi is like an expensive touring bike with training wheels.
As for "no need run network cables all over the place?" it's just ONE cable.
As for the education iMac, I still wish Apple put it back on the market for everyone. I miss the days of suggesting the eMac to users with a tight budget looking for an all in one. A stripped down iMac for $899 would be a start toward that "lower priced Macs with no Apple tax" thing.
No need to strip it down, thanks. Just lower the price and those tight budgets will find room for the Precious.
+1 on the WiFi Mac Pro & network cable comment.
the mac pro is so over priced that they should give wifi for free as well x2 the ram and better video card and still it will need a $1000 price drop.
The imac and mac mini should drop wifi by default and add more ram / better video and make a wifi a payed add on.
Already answered: to get them to shell out the extra $100 for the proper iMac.
Plus, I fear the main use BT would actually be put to in a school setting is transferring pictures from phones, to email/upload them to the net. And we all know how that goes down, right kids?