thehumanfactor's Profile

For 5 years I was an Apple Rep for several major stores in Southern California. During the end of the time I worked for Apple Computer the G4 towers were at the top of Apple's pro computer offerings. These high powered, high end systems were considerably more expensive then todays G5's. The top model had a MSRP of $4999.00. And of course in these stores every system sold for that price. Several times while making a store vist I had a professional photographer's come in and buy the most expensive system for $4999.00. That's not all they also maxed out the memory for their new system, which was also very expensive. The price for this memory was another $4999.00. For a total sale of over $10,000 before tax! One of these photographer's when I discussed the cost of the system stated "one good job will pay for this purchase." Showing when time is big money speed really does matter. These high end muli-processor system are designed for them (Professiona photographer's. Not for the rest of us! Glenn