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Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro
That is correct, you cannot purchase a 3rd party motherboard for an Apple computer. A large part of this is that Apple is very much a hardware company, as well as a software company. ...
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I dont think you fully understand. I cannot purchase a new motherboard for the flaming G4 FROM APPLE!
you can only exchange the failed one for a new one (for $350 - just for the board, no processors, no memory!). If you dont have a failed motherboard then
APPLE will not sell you a new one
because they know people could buy just the mother board and then get everything else (processors, memory, HD, CD drive, case, power supply...) from somewhere else and make your own Mac
much cheaper
there was nothing in that G4 tower Mac that cost Apple $2400 to manufacture - they pay the same price as other PC companies to get circuit boards made, to buy hard drives and power supplies... the difference is the extreem markup - Apple makes a huge profit on each computer they sell.
what do you get for the extra $$$? better quality? the engineers at Apple do not hold the patents on design quality - what you are paying for is the logo, the company image
or in my case, blue smoke and mirrors!
