CompUSA is nuts

coolmaccoolmac
Posted:
in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
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?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    chilleymacchilleymac Posts: 142member
    That is insane.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by coolmac



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



    Apple's MSRP for that card is $399
  • Reply 3 of 5
    madmax559madmax559 Posts: 596member
    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
  • Reply 4 of 5
    gargoylegargoyle Posts: 660member
    Cant you just get the mac firmware from nvidia and flash a pc version???
  • Reply 5 of 5
    o-maco-mac Posts: 777member
    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.
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