It's pretty obvious that these towers are not a true low-cost strategy on Apple's part. Despite the older motherboard, they still come with all the expensive plastic, power supply, DDR RAM, et al as the previous generation MDD. If anything, they brought the mobo back to the previous lineup because it did shave a few bucks off and to increase the differentiation with the G5.
I'm still awaiting Apple's true low-cost no-monitor-included strategy. Right now all they're doing is selling a tower to people who want one now.
Well, the big announcement (back at MWSF?) was that MacOS 9.0 was dead, and so too would be OS9 booting towers - at the end of June 2003.
But, somehow we now have three OS9 booting G4s in the Apple store, which is an increase over the two available prior to the G5 announcement, and they have lower prices too.
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I'm still awaiting Apple's true low-cost no-monitor-included strategy. Right now all they're doing is selling a tower to people who want one now.
Originally posted by Clive
Well, the big announcement (back at MWSF?) was that MacOS 9.0 was dead, and so too would be OS9 booting towers - at the end of June 2003.
But, somehow we now have three OS9 booting G4s in the Apple store, which is an increase over the two available prior to the G5 announcement, and they have lower prices too.
There is only one - the other two are BTO.
Quark is finally here.
Panther is on it's way.
By September it's R.I.P OS9
Bring out your dead!