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Apple quietly drops 500MHz Cube price

updated 05:37 pm EST, Fri February 2, 2001


As noted in our forums yesterday, the Apple Store has quietly dropped the price on the 500-MHz G4 Cube by $300 to $1999 (128MB/30GB) and has added a high-end configuration, which includes 256MB of RAM, a 40GB drive, and an ATI Radeon Graphics card for $2399.


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    Stupid is as stupid does

    c***, I really like the Cube. It is way cool. But dagnammit, the bugger is not worth the prices that Apple puts on it. I know that there are lots of people out there that have money to burn, but I don't and won't for something that is as over priced as the Cube.

    The Cube costs less to manufacture, even with a 40 gig drive and 256 megs of Ram than the base iMac does. And I am cool with Apple making profit, but there has to be a limit and its frustrating that my fellow Mac Heads won't protest like I do on such an outragious abuse as the cost of this device.

    Its like the G4 Tower. Great Box. Love it. And though lots of people here say you can not compare Apple with other Computer makers, the real truth is that you can and you should. At the $1,200 level in the Wintel world you get a CD-RW AND a DVD-Rom Drive AND a 60 GIG hard drive.

    Frickin A, Apple, Wake up! Get off your overpriced lilly laurels and give us a machine that is worth what you are charging.

    MORITORIUM ON NEW MAC PURCHASES SHOULD LIVE UNTIL APPLE GIVE US TRUE VALUE IN THE MARKET PLACE!!!!!

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    OUTRAGIOUS

    YOU CAN BUY A GIG OF RAM FOR LESS THAN $500. IS APPLE OUT OF THEIR MINDS?

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    Prices

    Apple doesn't suck, but the over charging the customers sure does. Maybe the new Attorney General will investigate Apple - the true monopoly!

    Oh, but that is why Steve Jobs held that fundraiser for that ugly b**** Horlery to keep the DOJ from freaking Apple like they did to poor M$!

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    watch it die away

    the cube will slide away into obscurity by this time next year...people will be talking like it is a collector's item...just like the 20th Anniversary mac....

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    new cubs

    Hey guys what does a price drop usually mean at the Apple store?
    NEW PRODUCTS!
    Looks like we will be seeing new Cubs in a month or so:)

    maybe a cheap G3 cube.......

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    New Cubes

    All I want is a $1799 500Mhz G4 cube with a CDRW. This cannot possibly be a difficult price target to hit - although I strongly disagree with the first comment on this thread - there is no way in h*** that the cube is cheaper to manufacture than the imac.

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    how to sell them

    Let's get serious about cube sales. Keep the low end cube at 450mhz and offer it at $899. Anybody buying one of these is going to buy the flat panel display, that's were the money is. Who in their right mind would by a cube and then put a freakin huge ugly display next to it. Even my wife says we would have to get the flat panel with the cube. Sacrifice some profit on one end to make it up on the other. If you can't afford the display that goes with the cube whats the point in buying the cube anyway. It's supposed to be the state of the art computer and people realize that and don't buy it to put some huge ugly display with it. It's all in the marketing.

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    ummmm

    Who in their right mind would by a cube and then put a freakin huge ugly display next to it.

    I put a huge 17" nice looking Apple display next to mine. I love it!

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    Apple overcharging? NO

    Apple does not overcharge. They do have one of the highest profit margins, but remember all the cool software they produce costs development money. iTunes and iMovie are both FREE and both quality apps.

    Also, it's not quite the same, but there are some people who buy a Lexus, when they could buy a Toyota for $15,000 less, yet they are almost identical. Mac's and PC's are different. Face it.

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    Watch for Refurb. Cubes

    There were refurbished 450 Mhz. Cubes on the Apple Store website before Christmas... for $1,299... I'm typing this on one of them... and loving it!

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