Apple removes Education iMac

[krissel]

Not available to the public anymore. Guess it was too much of a good thing.

http://www.thestreet.com/_iwon/tech/gamesa...mp;alias=/ht/nw

[sandbox]

That's unfortunate, mistake, I wonder?

These educational promotions have led to abuse through the years, anyone that said they ever went to school could purchase a Apple product at a discount. I was eligible to buy software because I gave instruction to seniors citizen in their homes so I know how loose the program was.

I would imagine Apple would also have a hard time controlling third party venders, if the option was extended to say......... Best Buy?

I also suspect that the media coverage of a $900.00 iMac was beneficial in the price wars, Loss Leaders depend on after market sales to make a profit. If Apple was selling a lot of extra hardware and software as a result of this promotion, they most likely would have continued it.

[gunug]

I'd like to say I wasn't tempted but if the price isn't $900 anymore than I won't be tempted anymore!  An offer only good for a few days isn't really an offer in my book!

[MacHeadCase]

The nuance here is that the low-end model is still available to institutions but not to students or teachers. Anyway, it's a darn shame that individuals in the Edu sector will now have to fork over $1,200 or more for the mid-level to high-end models. At least they'll be getting better hardware (bigger internal HD, better graphics capability). That small HD (compared to today's standards) is good for a network where all the apps are stored on and fed through a server so that only students' work is saved on a unit's internal HD.

I just dunno. Lately I find Apple has stumbled from blunder to blunder. They better try to make up for it with snappy announcements soon, like for instance during His Steveness WWDC 2006 keynote...  

Edu iMacs' specs.