Apple has announced a 24-Month, 0%, Fair Market Value Lease promotion for qualifying businesses. Through June 30, 2004, when your business enters into a qualifying 24-month lease agreement, you will pay 0% interest through AFS Commercial Credit.
Promotion Details:
– Eligible equipment includes iMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power Mac G5, Xserve, Xserve RAID, and Apple Displays.
– Soft costs (software, services, etc) are limited to 10% of total lease amount. If soft costs exceed 10%, they must be covered under a separate lease agreement.
– 24 equal monthly payments on a minimum transaction of $5,000.
To learn more about this or other AFS Commercial Credit programs, please call 800-APPLE-LN.
Terms and Conditions:
– 0% interest rate based only on the payment stream. You will be subject to standard end-of-term conditions for a Fair Market Value Lease.
– $5,000 minimum transaction size.
– Lease must be comprised of 90% hardware to qualify for the promotion.
– Soft costs in excess of 10% are subject to a separate lease agreement.
– Lease agreement subject to all standard fees and taxes.
– Applicable to 24-month, Fair Market Value leases only.
– All leases subject to credit and documentation approval.
– Signed lease documents must be received by June 30, 2004 to qualify.
More information here.
This is a business lease thet are offering, not a personal lease. 2 years may not be the overall life of a Mac, but it can make a huge difference in performance. If your business requires cutting edge performance, like large video houses, recording studios, graphics studios, or even web servers, getting a new machine every 2 years is totally reasonable. I bought a G4 466 almost 3 years ago. I use it for digital audio, and it will run audio applications in OS X, but for any serious projects I have to boot it to OS 9, or I can’t get enough tracks to playback. It is simply underpowered. I am on a 4 year lease, so if I wait another year to upgrade, that’s another year I’m behind the curve running under OS 9. If I buy plugins for it I have to either bite the bullet and buy them for OS 9, or look for the one’s that give me both versions when I buy.
Currently I am waiting for the next revision of the G5 to come out, I will pay cash and let my lease expire on the older machine without re-upping.
Other than the lower payment, I don’t think I would ever do the longer lease again.
I see this offer as a good incentive for more high end business purchases. Hopefully they selll a bunch of xServes.
owner of an original imac 233, 160 (32+128 sticks) ram, 4 gig hd, os 8.6. It’s in great shape–given to me by an old man. I’m in great shape too–sice I’ve paid nothing for it–I thought I might give it some upgrades. I’m thinking panther will make it feel better, ram (128+256)=384, and a much larger hd.
Any how, my real question: How would the coveted GarageBand software work on this litte guy if I only used it for Midi sequencing? (I have my reasons OK?!)
Any other upgrade suggestions/comments welcome
iMach