Son of eMate lives! Will Apple join the cheap laptop party?
Low-cost PCs are all the rage now, with Daewoo being the latest to join the party with a new laptop aimed at the Education market.
While I know Apple will not water down its brand with an ultra low-margin machine, not offering a sub-$1000 machine is eventually going to see Macs booted from the Education market.
Education has been a target market for Apple since the early days.
With OpenOffice for Mac OS X coming in the fall and iTunes winning the fight for young hearts and minds, I can't see how Apple can stand back and allow the Mac to be kicked out of the Education market altogether.
Problem is, like the eMate and 17" CRT iMac, any low-cost education machine introduced will bring considerable pressure on Apple to make it available to the general market.
How does Apple deal with today's Education market?
While I know Apple will not water down its brand with an ultra low-margin machine, not offering a sub-$1000 machine is eventually going to see Macs booted from the Education market.
Education has been a target market for Apple since the early days.
With OpenOffice for Mac OS X coming in the fall and iTunes winning the fight for young hearts and minds, I can't see how Apple can stand back and allow the Mac to be kicked out of the Education market altogether.
Problem is, like the eMate and 17" CRT iMac, any low-cost education machine introduced will bring considerable pressure on Apple to make it available to the general market.
How does Apple deal with today's Education market?
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Low-cost PCs are all the rage now, with Daewoo being the latest to join the party with a new laptop aimed at the Education market.
While I know Apple will not water down its brand with an ultra low-margin machine, not offering a sub-$1000 machine is eventually going to see Macs booted from the Education market.
Education has been a target market for Apple since the early days.
With OpenOffice for Mac OS X coming in the fall and iTunes winning the fight for young hearts and minds, I can't see how Apple can stand back and allow the Mac to be kicked out of the Education market altogether.
Problem is, like the eMate and 17" CRT iMac, any low-cost education machine introduced will bring considerable pressure on Apple to make it available to the general market.
How does Apple deal with today's Education market?
Apple is doomed!
Apple is doomed!
No-one claimed they were doomed.
Just that low-cost laptops are a serious threat to Apple's place in the education market.
No-one claimed they were doomed.
Just that low-cost laptops are a serious threat to Apple's place in the education market.
How do they manage without your insighst?
No-one claimed they were doomed.
Just that low-cost laptops are a serious threat to Apple's place in the education market.
I'll have to disagree with you there. My college has a room full of about 15 iMacs, 3 Power Mac G4s and one Mac Pro. All these are loaded with final cut pro and express on some others.