CompUSA is nuts

[coolmac]

I was at CompUSA this morning, out of curiosity I glanced at the video card case to see if the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (for PC) was released yet, sitting there was a simple box with an Apple logo on it with a price under the box of $429.

Figuring that it must finally be the Mac version ATI 9700 Pro I asked the clerk to see it, when he handed it to me it said Nvidia Geforce 4Ti, Mac version!

I couldn't believe it, $429! are they nuts?

[chilleymac]

That is insane.

[Eugene]

Originally posted by coolmac

I couldn't believe it, $429! are they nuts?

Apple's MSRP for that card is $399

[madmax559]

um mac gfx cards have always been
overpriced.... :) like the rest of their hardware
this was the one major turn off for me when i
was looking at macs (i do use & own a powerbook)

the hardware is pretty std pci/agp bus etc etc
so theres no real reason for gfx cards to be so
overpriced....my geforce 3 ti200 oon my win2k
box cost me 140$ & i bought it new when they
first came out

[Gargoyle]

Cant you just get the mac firmware from nvidia and flash a pc version???

[O-Mac]

Well, at the CompUSA near me they were selling the Apple Pro Mouse for $69!!!
At Apple.com they're $59 and at the Apple store it's the same thing.