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As the Apple Turns: Reruns: Episode for 12/22/2003: "Now, on to far more important matters: as faithful viewer Mikey pointed out in this MacSlash thread, what's all this about Dell selling eMacs to the New York City Department of Education? If you load up that organization's catalog page and search for 'emac,' you wind up with a list of eMacs with a vendor code of 'DEL043.' Click on DEL043 and you find that the vendor is 'APPLE C/O DELL MARKETING.' A scarier thing has never darkened this plane of existence.

Word has it that 'Dell is the only vendor allowed to sell computers to NYC schools' (presumably they won the bid on an exclusive contract), so even Macs have to be purchased through Dell, which effectively makes Dell an Apple reseller. This brings up two important points. First of all, after finding this out, we need about six showers to scrub the dirty off our skin. Secondly, here's a vital question, especially if New York isn't the only place with a setup like this: if a New York school buys an eMac and the sale goes through Dell, who gets credited with the sale as far as the market share numbers go? Because if it's Dell (and we assume it would be), then Dell would be gaining market share on paper for computers that are actually Macs going into the schools. Sneaky. Maybe Apple should start selling cheap-ass Wintels to schools just for the bragging rights.

Okay, so as far as excitement goes, it was no 10-K form, but it still creeps us out. Pardon us while we go exfoliate..."

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