Apples, red wine and haschich...

We, record producer, home studio hobbyists and starving artists mixing that 1536th demo comsume macs as french consume red wine and marocan consume haschich. Often and with passion. Anyway, I am surprised: 99.7% of potential consumers compare mac prices taking apple's configured system prices. So when they say a Dual 800 costs $3499, they don't realise they are, for example, paying $200 for a 128Meg stick. YES! Go to the apple sore, select the Dual, and change the RAM from 256 to 128: BAM, instant $200 discount. I am trying to advertise as much as possible, and I wish people would realize that the real base prices for the simplest configuration of the new macs are as follow: Mac configured with: 128M RAM 40G HD Ultra ATA66 5400rpm CDRW 12x8x32x Video Card NVIDIA GeForce2 MX (32Megas) Lexmark Z32 Color Jetprinter 733Mhz = And then switch to a 867 for $300 more, and a Dual 800 for $900 more. To sum it up: 733Mhz = $1,670.00 867Mhz = $1,970.00 2x800Mhz = $ 2,570.00 [ July 23, 2001: Message edited by: Kickin.da.speaker ]

I thought everyone knew they could do that on Apple's site kickin.da.speaker. I did the same thing right after Steve Jobs announced the new G4 configuations. Plus, got the same $1970 for the G4 867. I was too, like, get that way expensive 128 MB of RAM out of that machine, I'll put my own 512 RAM chip from OWcomputing.com for $125. Anyway, I'm glad you pointed it out. Ten cheers to you. P.S. It does, however, take a tad longer to get your computer via the BTO system. S*** you're saving some MAD loot right. Chris

one thing though! you have to run pt on a 7200rpm drive.5400 wont do it!

i may have to disagree about hard drive speed. i believe mine is a 5400. but i can't seem to find specifics for my hard drive in os9. i used apple system profiler but i doesn't show hard drive specs.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR> one thing though! you have to run pt on a 7200rpm drive.5400 wont do it! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That's what they tell you. I have run PTLE on a 5400rpm stock, the same that had my system on, for a year before upgrading to an additioinal 7200rpm. The truth is it worked like a charm, and I didn't see any difference after the upgrade.