Apple site suggests 17" iMac on its way back

Anonymous Anonymous

#1 – 5:28 PM March 20, 2009

Apple never stopped selling the 17'' to education. Do your homework, Rob.

Anonymous Anonymous

#2 – 5:45 PM March 20, 2009

That might be educational pricing, or worse, education-only.

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 5:49 PM March 20, 2009

Wow, it's almost like Apple cares about educational customers again...

karrock

#4 – 7:05 PM March 20, 2009

Love that special name! ^_^

artbot

#5 – 7:57 PM March 20, 2009

How does this "fuck Ballmer" when there are better windows or linux machines for less money?

Ballmer-hate is as silly & pointless as Apple fanboyism. Okay, maybe a bit more on-the-mark, but still lame.

reflex

#6 – 8:16 PM March 20, 2009

Excellent. I haven't had a 17" monitor on my desktop since 2001. It'll be just like old times.

Anonymous Anonymous

#7 – 8:40 PM March 20, 2009

How does this "fuck Ballmer" when there are better windows or linux machines for less money?

Ballmer said the Apple logo tax is $500 - that Apple sells the same hardware with a $500 markup. Without published specs, there's no way to know if that's remotely the case on a 17" iMac, but I tend to doubt that there's an AIO Linux or Windows system with a Core 2 Duo in it for $400.

Presumably, a $900 iMac fucks Ballmer because a Core 2 desktop with a 17" LCD, while it'd cost less, wouldn't cost $500 less. More like $200-$300 less.

Now, you can get a reasonably kitted 17" Core 2 Duo laptop for $700, and get all the benefits of a laptop with the same size screen. And with Apple promoting their 17" MacBook Pro, it makes me wonder why they don't whip up a 17" iBook at $900 instead of a 17" desktop with similar components.

And of course, you can slap an Eee box on the back of a 17" LCD for less than $400 and get a computer as capable of most everything but 1080p video (which, on the iMac, would be on a 17" screen that's probably not 1080p, and kinda pointlessly high-def if it is). It'd be ugly, and slower, but the eternal question is if it's $500 slower.

Anonymous Anonymous

#8 – 8:43 PM March 20, 2009

A 17" iMac at $800-$900 would be a decent replacement for the CRT eMac in education. I don't think consumers would respond as well, much as they responded to the eMac.

Like Reflex said, 17" LCDs are to Apple's target market as what CRTs were to the eMac's.

dculberson

#9 – 9:47 PM March 20, 2009

"Better?" Probably not. (Hint: Faster d.n.e. better.)

Camillo Miller

#10 – 12:57 AM March 21, 2009

I think it's a good move. "The Mac desktop for the MacBook owner". :)

gobo

#11 – 5:09 AM March 21, 2009

#2, since you can't buy a better windows machine for $499 (Ballmer's alleged $500 Apple tax figured in), that's not true. Can you post comparative specs of your better, cheaper Windows machine before calling the authors here 'lame'?

Anonymous Anonymous

#12 – 5:52 AM March 21, 2009

Could not find the 17" imac anywhere on my schools Apple site or Apple's normal site or Apple's Edu site.

Radiohead

#13 – 10:41 AM March 21, 2009

Apple has always kept a 17" iMac configuration (white plastic) available for education customers. This isn't a new development. Just go to the online Apple store and click the "education store" link.

freetardzero

#14 – 2:45 PM March 21, 2009

Radiohead is right- not only that, but we can also still get the white Macbook in quantity, for around $1K CDN (less if you buy them in 5-packs).

That being said, Apple still needs to be pilloried for their treatment of us in the education sector. Elimination of the 12" format laptops? Check. Elimination of Firewire? Check. Elimination of matte screens? Check.

Put plainly, Apple is going to lose the education market (again, FTW!) because they refuse to keep producing products that work well for us. They worked really hard to get thousands of classrooms involved in one-to-one laptop programs with the iBooks, and now they have turned 180 degrees around on us in terms of support and features.

My district has roughly 650 Mac portables at the moment: due to Apple's pissy attitude towards education, and also due to budget cuts, we'll likely be phasing out our Macs and moving to PCs running Linux in the next few years. Apple has to get over themselves and realise that they're not the only people who can provide a good product- others are doing it better, for a lot less money.

/rant

Anonymous Anonymous

#15 – 3:33 PM March 22, 2009

Apple has always kept a 17" iMac configuration (white plastic) available for education customers. This isn't a new development.

From the newsletter:

The new iMac line also includes a 17-inch model

So, this is a new development.

Just go to the online Apple store and click the "education store" link.

No 17" iMacs for either my high school or my university on my education store. What am I doing wrong?

Rob Beschizza

#16 – 3:39 PM March 22, 2009

I checked the education store's aluminum iMacs before I posted and didn't see any 17" model -- can someone post a link?

Anonymous Anonymous

#17 – 5:49 PM March 22, 2009

This 17 inch iMac is only available for educators and students, in the US, and the EU, except apparently for Italy. The original story that got this rolling came from SeteB.it, or 7Bit, an Italian tech site. This 17 inch iMac is also quite dismally equipped with a 1.83 GHz DuoCore processor, 512MB RAM, 64MB of which is shared Video RAM, an 80 GB hard drive, and a media drive that only burns CD-R's. Not much for $899.00 US. You could get a better equipped Mac Mini for less than that.

sarafoster

#18 – 10:58 AM October 28, 2009

I Mac 17 inches LCD think its good . But will it effect on our Laptop Display screen ??? price is very high 900 $
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sarafoster

#19 – 11:01 AM October 28, 2009

Imac always do promote perfect product but this time price of the screen is very High 900 USD.
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sarafoster

#20 – 12:24 PM November 14, 2009

17 inches mac in 900$ . but i think its a high quality machine . drawbacks dependent platform.
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sarafoster

#21 – 12:25 PM November 14, 2009

drawback in this machine :

platform dependent .

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