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On Feb 24, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> History suggests that it might not force any price down.  Apple sold
> both PPC and Intel versions of iMacs, until they had sold off their
> remaining PPC machines.  No price reductions, since some people will
> be just as happy to stick with PPC even after Intel versions are
> available.

Apple will *never* reduce their prices :-(

I was thinking more of used gear sales as people dump their hardware  
for the latest and greatest.

--lyndon