[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDE HARDWARE RAID

Wed May 15 15:41:13 CDT 2002

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:12:10PM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:03:26PM -0400, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > Why?  That makes no sense.  Apple should pay almost bottom dollar due to
> > 1. OEM gets *NO* calls about apple HDs, 2. Apple buys Lots of disks
> 
> Because the drives you buy from compgeeks are not retail or even wholesale.
> They are dumped on the market from overstock by the OEMs. Apple gets
> discounts and bottom dollar on wholesale prices on premium equipment. Why do
> you think you can put a PC together from parts for so much less than an HP
> or Dell? It's not because you're paying Dell for labor or even margin. It's
> because they pay higher prices than you for parts that you get from OEM
> overstock.

Apple / Dell / HP etc. get the cheapest pricing, period.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net