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Re: New Macs coming "soon"??

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In article <3brp1b-a3a1.ln1@news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-04-13, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
<snip>
> > 
> > The Mac Mini hasn't been updated since late 2012. It might get a delayed
> > update to Haswell (notebook) processors around the same time as a minor
> > iMac release. Since the introduction of Intel Mac, Mac Mini updates have
> > occurred around the time the iMac got updated, but sometimes the Mac
> > Mini missed out (the Mac Mini was not updated with the Early 2008 or
> > Late 2013 iMacs).
> 
> It may be a coincidence but the "10% off" sale I mentioned above was for
> iMacs and minis.

Here in New Zealand they used to do the "10% off sales" on specific
models (iMacs *OR* MacBook Pro, etc.), but the last couple of years has
seen them more usually be "10% off all Apple Macs" ... *possibly* they
got told off by Apple for singling out the model about to be updated,
or it could (as David Empson said) just be them trying to reduce stock
levels. 

As far as I've noticed these sales always exclude custom-built Macs,
but only sometimes say "limited stock" or "shop stock only" - one of
the recent sales did say "limited stock".

I can't really see them having a sale to sell more Macs simply for the
sake of selling. These are retailers who sell various makes of
computers and the retailer margin on Apple computers is already small,
so they'd be better off trying to sell the more profitable WIndows PCs
instead.

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New Macs coming "soon"?? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-12 15:06 +1200
  Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2014-04-12 12:26 +0200
    Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-13 09:57 +1200
      Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-13 08:24 +0200
    Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-04-13 12:45 +1200
      Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-13 09:35 +0200
        Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-13 20:03 +1200
        Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-04-13 20:17 +1200
        Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-04-13 21:21 +1200
  Re: New Macs coming "soon"?? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-04-13 09:34 -0400

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