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   From: digilyd@hotmail.com   
      
   Laurence Payne wrote:   
      
   > OK.  We can ignore the one from 2004 I think.  The other doesn't   
   > address my question.  I'm hearing that there are a lot of standard   
   > components in an Intel Mac desktop machine.  Yes or no?  How much is   
   > the price loaded?   
      
   Look at the laptop prices, just as in 1988, when I deselected Macs as   
   entry-computer, the extra charge for the name is to multiply final retail   
   price with factor 1.5. In some contexts the properties of the product cause   
   the market to bear that price, and in some contexts it doesn't.   
      
   I am not aware of their educational pricing, but it is my gut feeling that a   
   smaller multiplier is used, perhaps factor 1.2, otherwise it makes no sense   
   to see so many students with macbooks. Educational pricing makes a lot of   
   sense and makes things possible that otherwise wouldn't be, do not count me   
   as being against the concept.   
      
   Strangely they are toys ex works and seemingly not intended for use in a   
   corporate context, the lack of a combination of a tunneling client and a rdp   
   client caused the defeat of being unable to offer a staff member @daytime   
   job a rdp-access that would have been most useful. With a windows laptop it   
   had taken three minutes to set up. It ended up being beyond what I could   
   allocate time to solve and beyond the users own capabilites to find the   
   required software, what was found didn't. The macbook itself is a nice   
   laptop - I plain liked it when using it, but it only almost made to being a   
   candidate for my next laptop because of that.   
      
     Kind regards   
      
     Peter Larsen   
      
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