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To: Alomex who wrote (31810)	1/15/2002 2:12:15 PM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

End of summer would be the earliest for any price cuts. It's possible you'll see a bundle deal instead of a price cut this year. Add an iPod for $200 or extra RAM or free printer. I don't think Apple really needs to cut any prices until October at the earliest. These are competitively priced but will be overpriced by that point, IMO. A $999 flatpanel eye-catching consumer computer is the dream and it may depend on LCD prices. If they firm up it may not be possible. I'm not so sure sales are going to cool down until next January anyway. Ie, just when the first wave ends the school buying starts and then when that cools comes the real consumer wave, Christmas 2002. Marc

To: Alomex who wrote (31810)	1/15/2002 3:47:44 PM
From: spitsong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Alomex: Apple is not going to cut to those prices The new high-end iMac has an LCD and a SuperDrive in it. Those components alone mean the price must stay up for a while longer yet. Also, Apple is going to sell a ton of those new high-end iMacs at their $1799 price. There is no reason to expect that it will drop before MWNY, plain and simple, and no reason to expect that it will drop significantly this year at all. More likely is that in 6-9 months, the new iMacs will get speed bumps and stay at or very near their present prices. After all, if you want to spend less, you have the option of buying two lower-priced LCD iMacs, and lower-priced-still CRT iMacs, all the way down to $799, or $749 if you qualify for an education price. You cannot buy a computer from any vendor that matches the new high-end iMac's specs. Here's a very thorough effort to do so, even trying to compare CRT competitors: aapltalk.com I honestly don't understand where people get the idea that many Apple models are not price-competitive with WIntel systems. It's like they're trying to compare Macs with bottom-feeder Wintel hardware, without adding the same features that come standard with Macs onto the Wintel systems.