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Dual 1.8 Ghz G5

Originally posted by daveg5
this will increase apples maret share 40-60% but they would probably go out of buisness in a year.
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Looks to me as though you changed scem0's quoted post. You really ought to mention that when you do it, as someone else may come along and think that's what the original post stated.
 
Re: Re: Low Prices

Originally posted by ffakr
We don't know what cost is on a G5.
$2000 for a single processor computer with fairly standard components allows for a pretty good profit margin IMHO.

It is not in Apple's best interest to sell the G5 at low margin right now since they probably wouldn't sell significantly more units if they lowered the price by 25%... at least not at first.
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Your right, cost would be hard to know. The figure that gets kicked around is 25 % as far as profit margin for apple?
I think the G5's are even faster than apple has quoted, even the cheapie looks good.
Apples do cost more but they also hold their value very well so I'll be trying one as soon as they're available

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Re: Low Prices

Originally posted by jaedreth
Um, yeah. Sell the G5's below cost. And then add a $250 discount to Edu. Um. Yeah. Apple wouldn't last that long.

Jaedreth
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my post was meant as sarcasm look at the last line
 
I just read the specs for the dual 1.8 and the 2.0 @ Apple's website, and the only things that I could find that were different between the two is that the dual 2.0Ghz G5 has an ATI 9600 Pro graphics card vs. Nvidia 5200 on the dual 1.8; the dual 2.0 has a 1Ghz FSB vs. 900Mhz on the 1.8 (naturally), and of course the 2.0 has the faster processor. I know, duh!

http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html
 
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