What About The $1199 iMac???

[Nabooly]

So you got a $3000 iMac for 1450, with applecare huh? Well, according to my calculations, that is around 50% off, give or take a few %. According to some information I found out on the internets, the BEST discount that a Apple employee can get is the once-a-year 25% system discount, according to this page, which tracks information on Apples retail locations(The specific information on employee discounts can be found here). Now, since you got a 2.8GHz iMac with a 500GB HDD and 4GB of RAM for under 1500, what kind of discount dose your cousin have, the "I am Steve Job's Bitch" discount? And given that, your cousin was ACTUALLY supposed to use the 15% discount for family members. So, if Apple finds out what happened, your cousin could be fired! Well, lets all hope for the best, now, shall we!?!

Maybe his cousin is steve himself

 

[HLdan]

So you got a $3000 iMac for 1450, with applecare huh? Well, according to my calculations, that is around 50% off, give or take a few %. According to some information I found out on the internets, the BEST discount that a Apple employee can get is the once-a-year 25% system discount, according to this page, which tracks information on Apples retail locations(The specific information on employee discounts can be found here). Now, since you got a 2.8GHz iMac with a 500GB HDD and 4GB of RAM for under 1500, what kind of discount dose your cousin have, the "I am Steve Job's Bitch" discount? And given that, your cousin was ACTUALLY supposed to use the 15% discount for family members. So, if Apple finds out what happened, your cousin could be fired! Well, lets all hope for the best, now, shall we!?!

Wow you are taking this really too serioiusly, I mean, really! First off the 4GB ram was not purchased through Apple, not even an employee discount is worth buying it from Apple. Secondly, Apple gave many of their employees and execs a free iPhone 8GB, the company does take care of their staff.
Lastly you don't know what level my family works at Apple and I don't need to explain that.
Gunjack was basically calling me an idiot for paying $3k for an iMac when I never said anything derogatory towards him. For you to go line by line what my family discount deserves to be sounds like you are actually jealous.

 

[Shimshuta]

Wow you are taking this really too serioiusly, I mean, really! First off the 4GB ram was not purchased through Apple, not even an employee discount is worth buying it from Apple. Secondly, Apple gave many of their employees and execs a free iPhone 8GB, the company does take care of their staff.
Lastly you don't know what level my family works at Apple and I don't need to explain that.
Gunjack was basically calling me an idiot for paying $3k for an iMac when I never said anything derogatory towards him. For you to go line by line what my family discount deserves to be sounds like you are actually jealous.

I will do this with a list that has numbers, so you can understand.

1. So you bought the iMac w/o the 4GB of RAM. With a 25% discount, that still clocks in at $1724.25 with no apple care, and $1893.25 with apple care, still a good deal more than you claim. Then you have to take into account the cost of the memory at a outside retailer, which adds a unknown amount onto the cost of the machine.

2. This discussion is not about the iPhone. Don't change the subject.

3. I could care less what level of Apple your cousin works at. Any person on this forum could have spent the 5 seconds I did on Google to find the info on Apples discount system, and thats the only one published. Any "Super Special Me Me Me Only Discount" that you claim to have is hearsay only, and your word counts for jack.

4. How can I possibly be jealous when I am running a XP rig with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, an 8800GTX and 2GB of RAM, for all that time that I need with Bioshock, and any other game that comes my way for the next year or so. But wait you say, he uses Windows! For games, sure. I have been a Mac user since my parents first purchased the first Mac in 1984, and my Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro is really looking forward to 10.5 in a few months(Which I will BUY, as all users should).

5. And lastly, if you had looked into the specs for that iMac at all, you MIGHT have seen that Apple throttled the bus speed on the new iMacs, running it at 800MHz. The current consumer standard bus for the Core 2 Duo/Quad platform is 1066(soon to be 1333, which has been the server standard for about a year, aka the Mac Pro). Even on the standard bus speed, the Core 2 Duo Extreme is beyond the cost benefit curve(meaning your paying for WAY more than your getting), and on the crippled iMac bus, its even worse.

The previous posters who have talked about getting one of the iMacs, I would get the 20 inch 2.4GHz model with the 2600Pro that has 256MB of VRAM. That iMac hits the sweet spot in how much your paying to what kind of performance you are getting. Plus, with a max resolution of 1680x1050, if you choose to run Mac native games or XP on it(Vista is evil), your gaming experience should be decent(though I would recommend bumping the RAM up to 2GB at least).

 

[reallybigafro]

Thank you for your input Shimshuta! And thanks for getting to the original subject matter of the thread. It's all good when these guys are commenting on side stuff, but when it gets out of hand and people get offended is when it goes a little to far.

By the way I went to the apple store today and the apple employee who helped me really didn't know to much about the new imacs and was making stuff up. It was really sad cause I knew he had no idea, but it was really really sad cause I realized I have reasearched this decision WAY TO MUCH.

 

[mbcracken]

Bragging?

Bragging about discounted pricing usually results in the lack of said discounts for future purchases. Companies usually frown upon letting the general public in on what employee. Plus look at the ruckus you have caused in bragging. I hope your cousin keeps their job.

OK back on topic...

So, I am upgrading some very aging equipment. I have been interested in the iMac mostly because I can't justify a MacPro. My current lineup is a G4 -350 Yikes and a iBook 1.2 G4. I know that any of the iMacs will prove to be a huge improvement from my current line-up. I too have been struggling with the 2.0-2.4-2.8 CPU debate. I mostly do photo editing as the only "intense" software. I am looking at using Lightroom or Aperture. I am leaning towards the 20" mostly because of a space issue on the small desk I have for our computer. Right now I have a 20 Samsung LCD that I am using. Any suggestions for which CPU/Screen combo would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[HLdan]

Bragging about discounted pricing usually results in the lack of said discounts for future purchases. Companies usually frown upon letting the general public in on what employee. Plus look at the ruckus you have caused in bragging. I hope your cousin keeps their job.

People on this forum brag all day about their brand new shiny wonder they just picked up at the Apple store. I am always happy for them because I know how exciting it is to get a new Mac and it's a feeling of enjoyment that cannot be understood by a Windows user. I have paid full price for nearly all of my Macs while watching people on the forums "brag" about their student or company discounts and I never feel malice or annoyance of what they said they paid.

Whatever I got my iMac for shouldn't be that much of a concern of anyone so much that they have to write extreme postings about it.
One of the things I like about the Mac forums is people come here for help as well as express enjoyment for what they have.

I never once "bragged" (not that it matters) about what I paid, instead it was in defense of someone thinking I overpaid and they were basically calling me an idiot.
Funny how people make fun of you if you paid too much and at the same time get annoyed if they think you paid too little.

To all who took so much time to write a blog about me, learn to be a little bit nicer and be happy for someone else, don't analyze everything.

 

[mbcracken]

People on this forum brag all day about their brand new shiny wonder they just picked up at the Apple store. I am always happy for them because I know how exciting it is to get a new Mac and it's a feeling of enjoyment that cannot be understood by a Windows user. I have paid full price for nearly all of my Macs while watching people on the forums "brag" about their student or company discounts and I never feel malice or annoyance of what they said they paid.

Whatever I got my iMac for shouldn't be that much of a concern of anyone so much that they have to write extreme postings about it.
One of the things I like about the Mac forums is people come here for help as well as express enjoyment for what they have.

I never once "bragged" (not that it matters) about what I paid, instead it was in defense of someone thinking I overpaid and they were basically calling me an idiot.
Funny how people make fun of you if you paid too much and at the same time get annoyed if they think you paid too little.

To all who took so much time to write a blog about me, learn to be a little bit nicer and be happy for someone else, don't analyze everything.

The original poster was discussing "real world" pricing. Not what some family member pricing you received. Your comparing walnuts to cashews. Does that make sense? So, your telling people to spend extra money because of the discount pricing you receive is really not an accurate solution to the rest of us that have to buy Apple products at MSRP.

BTW, the reason I called it bragging is because the rest of us spending our hard earned dollars to pay MSRP is helping you get your discount.

Don't get me wrong. I too have been able to play the NPR (Never Pay Retail) games on a rare occasion with other products but never do I brag (discuss) the special pricing with others. I completely respect the effort it takes to earn moneys & to spend wisely.

Cheers,
Mike

PS: Just because someone else has bragged makes it OK to do the same?

I wonder if the moderator can close this thread since it will never go back to its original post.