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jefhatfield

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Jul 9, 2000
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keep things affordable vs pc world

kudos to apple for lowest prices ever on ibooks and tibook!

someday, we need sub $500 mac...there's a huge market there that are at this time buying only pc boxes
 
Especially the K-12 Ed market...

There is a big reason that Macs are becoming harder and harder to find in the classroom is because of price. Right now most schools have gone PC in this area except for a few that are running iBooks and G3 iMacs. As a teacher, I would love to see an iMac G3 800Mhz for $499. The fact is the eMac is overpriced for a classroom desktop, especially when most schools are ordering Celeron PC's for around that magic $500 a unit price point. Budgets are tight in education and taxpayers will not fork over the cash to put an expensive computer in front of a 2nd grader. The Macs are still the best computer for students and teachers, but they need to look at what we really want. All the G3 iMac needs is a better video card and a little more MHz and it is still a decent up-to-date machine. I know a neighboring district that just purchased 20 "snow" iMac G3's for a new lab this fall. I asked the tech coordinator why the did not go with the eMac and he said it would have ran them way over budget for something they really did not need.
 
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