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Apple Accepting Trade-ins

Posted by pudge on from the there-is-a-joke-in-here-somewhere dept.

zaren writes "Apple Computer has kicked off a trade-in program that apparently is covering all of Europe (I first heard about it on apple.ru, but there's now a link at euro.apple.com as well). Apple is accepting any Power Mac (from the 6100s on up) for a credit towards the purchse of a new G4 tower. Seems like they're a) pushing for more people to upgrade to Mac OS X, and b) pushing to clear out their G4 inventory before MacWorld New York." It looks like it is not any Power Mac, but old ones (I don't see iMacs listed). Still, I wish they would do the program in the US.

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  1. Environmental win by crow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Considering that it is now illegal in many places to throw away used computers due to the various toxic components (lead in the CRTs and such), a trade-in program is a great way of handling the problem.

    Sure, some people will pay $50 or so to have the computer recycled, but most will just leave it in the attic.

    Now the question is what happens to the old computers. Will Apple recycle them, or will they refurbish them and send them off to the Third World?

  2. It's *STILL* a complete ripoff! by @madeus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The maximum rebate of '240' UKP applies only to a Dual 1 Ghz G4 sytem.

    Hmm now a a Dual 1 Ghz G4 system is 2583.83 UKP (which is 3752.91 USD).

    The SAME system in the US costs only 2,999.00 USD. So, even WITH the discount it's *still* over 550 dollars cheaper in the US (and I'm one PowerMac down)!

    It's cheaper just to fly to the US!

    If they want to knock off 500 UKP off the system then I'll consider it, otherwise I'll stick a G3 upgrade card in my 7100, an $5 extra SCSI card, an extra $10 NIC and use it as a NAS.