Apples, red wine and haschich...

[Kickin.da.speaker]

We, record producer, home studio hobbyists and starving artists mixing that 1536th demo comsume macs as french consume red wine and marocan consume haschich. Often and with passion.

Anyway, I am surprised: 99.7% of potential consumers compare mac prices taking apple's configured system prices. So when they say a Dual 800 costs $3499, they don't realise they are, for example, paying $200 for a 128Meg stick. YES! Go to the apple sore, select the Dual, and change the RAM from 256 to 128: BAM, instant $200 discount.

I am trying to advertise as much as possible, and I wish people would realize that the real base prices for the simplest configuration of the new macs are as follow:

Mac configured with:
128M RAM
40G HD Ultra ATA66 5400rpm
CDRW 12x8x32x
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce2 MX (32Megas)
Lexmark Z32 Color Jetprinter

733Mhz = $1,670.00

And then switch to a 867 for $300 more, and a Dual 800 for $900 more.

To sum it up:

733Mhz = $1,670.00
867Mhz = $1,970.00
2x800Mhz = $ 2,570.00



[ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: Kickin.da.speaker ]

[CrookedSound]

People like you make the world a better place.

[Sugarite]

Some other things worth pointing out:

The difference between the price of the CD-RW and the DVD-RW 'Superdrive' is $650, which is the cost of the Pioneer DVR-A03 DVD-RW (same drive) from the lowest source at pricewatch.com, so you could order the Mac with the CD-RW, buy the DVD-RW separately, swap drives, and sell the CD-RW, and you save however much you get for the CD-RW.

Same applies to hard drives.

I wonder if you can custom order a G4 with no ram, optical drive, or hard drive. Imagine if they took another $200 off for not ordering the first 128mb stick! If they chrage that much for ram, I wonder what they charge for the cd-rw and hd...

[Christoph1123]

I thought everyone knew they could do that on Apple's site kickin.da.speaker. I did the same thing right after Steve Jobs announced the new G4 configuations. Plus, got the same $1970 for the G4 867. I was too, like, get that way expensive 128 MB of RAM out of that machine, I'll put my own 512 RAM chip from OWcomputing.com for $125.

Anyway, I'm glad you pointed it out. Ten cheers to you.

P.S. It does, however, take a tad longer to get your computer via the BTO system. S*** you're saving some MAD loot right.

Chris

[j creasey]

one thing though! you have to run pt on
a 7200rpm drive.5400 wont do it! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[graphite]

i may have to disagree about hard drive speed. i believe mine is a 5400. but i can't seem to find specifics for my hard drive in os9. i used apple system profiler but i doesn't show hard drive specs.

[Kickin.da.speaker]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR> one thing though! you have to run pt on
a 7200rpm drive.5400 wont do it! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's what they tell you. I have run PTLE on a 5400rpm stock, the same that had my system on, for a year before upgrading to an additioinal 7200rpm. The truth is it worked like a charm, and I didn't see any difference after the upgrade.