[Ti] Re: PowerBook competition

T.L. Miller tlmiller at mac.com
Thu Sep 22 19:23:46 PDT 2005


On Sep 22, 2005, at 8:16 PM, Jeffrey K. Lew wrote:
>
>> So apparently, individual dealers who bulk-buy can get their price  
>> down to 53% of the retail price, if it's indeed the same  
>> configuration with the Celeron (otherwise, it could be more like  
>> 35% of the retail price--wow!).

On 9/22/05, at 9:13 PM, Chris Olson, <chris.olson at astcomm.net> said:

>I appears to be more than that in some places.  Tice Computer, a  
>local HP dealer here, has HP Pavilion 1140 desktops on sale, complete  
>with a monitor, keyboard, speakers and mouse, for $499 with mail-in  
>rebate.  They retail for $1,099 and OfficeMax was selling the Compaq  
>version of the same computer for $449.99 with mail-in rebate, but has  
>since sold out of them.

Maybe they're trying to clear the channel or someone has too much stock.



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