[G4] To buy or not to buy? This is my question....

[Vernon LeMoignan]

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> This is a time when one has to be very careful a dealer is not dumping 
> the early 2003 dual 1.25 GHz FW800 model with only 1 MB L3 cache per 
> processor for MORE MONEY. I see this happening all over the internet 
> mail order sites. No doubt it is happening at dealers too since this 
> new price is below what the stores paid for their inferior dual 1.25 
> models they are now stuck with.
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I agree with you for the most part, but in canadian dollars the current 
dual 1.25 (single upgraded to dual) on apple's site is $2249 vs
$2050 at his local dealer. the $2050 gives you FW 800 in exchange for 
1MB L3 per processor instead of 2MB. In most benchmarks I've
seen there was little difference between 1MB L3 and 2Mb L3.

$2050 cdn  gets you : dual 1.25Ghz, 1MB L3 cache, FW 800, OS X boot only


$2249 cdn gets you :  dual 1.25 Ghz, 2MB L3, No FW 800, OS 9 and X



I Still think $2050 for a new Dual 1.25 is a good deal as long as you 
don't need OS9 booting.

Vern.