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MacInTouch Home Page: "[15:10 ET] 'Jay K.' pointed out a pretty strange situation - Dell selling Macs in the educational market:
['Jay K.'] Go to the New York City Board of Ed purchasing site and search for 'emac'
Notice that the vendor is Dell, and not Apple. This is not a mistake, Dell is the only vendor allowed to sell computers to NYC schools.

[Dave Sawyer] If I were a New York taxpayer, I'd be all over their purchasing division about this. Dell charges NYC on the order of 15% more for eMacs than if NYC bought them directly from Apple. For instance, the following configuration:
APPLE EMac, 1GHZ/384MB/80GB, SUPER DRIVE, AirPort Extreme, and OS X
runs $1,423.30 from Dell according to the NYC purchasing site, but the same system directly from Apple would only cost $1,252.00 and that includes AppleCare (which the Dell-provided system may not, in which case it's even more of a poor deal) and is only the single-quantity price, the same as any small school would pay - I'm sure that Apple would negotiate a quantity discount for the NYC school district.
And people wonder why the New York City school district is always in financial difficulty."

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