I thought this had been said, but I'll go ahead and put this here: Each revision of the PowerMac G4, Apple had a cheap/crappy one, and by about halfway through (Especially with the no-cache Quicksilver 2002 models) it had been noted somewhere that the cheap/no-cache models were probably a nod toward the education users and home users who were not going to notice the difference.
Of course, eventually the eMac came out, but there's always someone there to remind me that sometimes you just /need/ the swappable graphics card, multiple hard disks and 3 PCI slots, even though you're buying a G4 with no cache, so I'm sure there are fringe situations where it was better to buy the tower with no cache than the eMac. [
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Other situations I can think of are generic office tasks and situations where the computer had accidentally been bought by a home user instead of an iMac (or the later eMacs that were sold to consumers as well.)
Also, cache memory is the most expensive kind of memory, I would not be surprised if it actually shaved a bit more off the cost of the machine(s, all of them listed here) than we're giving Apple credit for.
Of course, eventually the eMac came out, but there's always someone there to remind me that sometimes you just /need/ the swappable graphics card, multiple hard disks and 3 PCI slots, even though you're buying a G4 with no cache, so I'm sure there are fringe situations where it was better to buy the tower with no cache than the eMac. [
] ]'>Other situations I can think of are generic office tasks and situations where the computer had accidentally been bought by a home user instead of an iMac (or the later eMacs that were sold to consumers as well.)
Also, cache memory is the most expensive kind of memory, I would not be surprised if it actually shaved a bit more off the cost of the machine(s, all of them listed here) than we're giving Apple credit for.