[G4] G4--prices?

[Kunga]

Dear Thomas Lane,
Please don't take this personally. I was not referring to FW800 Macs 
purchased between February and June. Although I would say that given 
Apple's flip flop on model prices and features, it could be argued that 
everyone like yourself did not get the best deal Apple has ever offered.

After Steve's historic speech of June 23rd 2003, Apple made an 
unprecedented shift in the G4 line to that of last year's models with 
radically lower prices.

"New" single 1.25 GHz w/1MB L3 cache MDD PMs are $1299 and dual 1.25 
GHz w/2MB L3 cache MDD PMs are $1599. Both models boot OS 9. Apple did 
a flip-flop on OS 9 booting. Both "new" models are based on 2002 
motherboards.

You have FW800, Airport Extreme and Bluetooth. The "new" models do not.

You paid quite a premium for your single 1 GB FW800 - about the same as 
the "new" dual 1.25 GHz PM and way more than the "new" single 1.25 GHz 
model. Sorry to be the barer of such bad news. i though all of you knew 
by now about this flip-flop in models and pricing since the G5 
announcement.

kunga10 (AIM)

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On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 10:05  PM, Thomas J. Lane wrote:

> I have the 1 gig FW800 G4 Power Mac.  I don't think it's a rip off.  I 
> like
> it a lot.  I have no desire to go back to OS 9 so that is not an issue 
> for
> me.  Since when do the new 1.25 duals boot in OS 9?  They came out 
> when my
> model came out and I am under the impression that they do not boot in 
> OS 9.
>
> Tom
> First Kunga Wrote:
>> The rip off G4's are everything outside the new dual 1.25 GHz w/2MB L3
>> cache that boot 9 for $1599. But anyone thinking of buying a new Mac
>> now should be thinking of waiting for the G5 and buying the dual 2 GHz
>> G5 in September or October for $2999.