Taiwan: Low 1GHz PowerMac price [updated]


Frosty Place, a Mac news site in Mandarin Chinese, is running a special on the back-catalog 1GHz PowerMac G4. The price is NT$41,895 (tax inclusive) and the specs are:

o Single 1GHz G4
o 256MB DDR266
o 60GB hard disk
o Combo drive
o NVIDIA GeForce4 w/ 32MB

That's a full NT$10,000 less than Apple Taiwan's price for the 1.25GHz G4 (80GB, Combo, 256MB, ATI 9000). Though this is a better deal, Frosty's got the lower price.

[Update] Frosty has improved their deal by offering the first 30 buyers a "free" copy of the upgrade version of Panther.

Panther + AppleCare offer

In related news, Apple Taiwan is offering Panther + AppleCare (w/o hardware purchase) at special reduced pricing. For example, buying this bundle for an iBook gives the buyer a price of NT$9,290 (about US$270). On the US Apple Store, AppleCare for an iBook costs $249 by itself.

Apple Taiwan has the hands down best price available for this bundle.

Editor's note: In general IGM, doesn't report on Taiwan-specific news. But, recent awareness (see comments) of how many of our readers actually live or have ties here make posting this story an experiment in potential.