Many price comparison websites use robots to gather pricing information from various vendors. This often leads to inaccurate or outdated prices, or prices for left-over, refurbished, and open-box machines. In addition, you rarely get information on free bundles, rebates, or discounts. As opposed to these sites, we use a real person to update our prices everyday. We visit the reseller's website to see the prices and bundles with our own eyes, and if that fails, we pick up the telephone and give them a call. In fact, we visit over 150 pages each morning to verify stock and prices. As a result, we feel that Mac Prices gives you the most accurate Mac and Apple prices on the web.
Mac Prices is an outgrowth of the Mac PowerBook and iBook price trackers originally started on our sister website, Power'Book Central. These price trackers proved to be the most popular feature of Power'Book Central, and we soon got requests to add price trackers for the rest of Apple's line of computers. This soon led to the formation of Mac Prices, where we devote an entire website to Mac price tracking. PCPrices.net was formerly known as MacPrices.com:
MacPrices.com changes domain to PCPrices.net: Different domain, same content
You may have noticed by now that MacPrices.com has changed its domain to PCPrices.net. Why the change? First off, let me assure you that we have no intention of including coverage of Windows PCs with our coverage of Macs on this part of the site. Our price trackers remain exclusive to the Mac and exactly the same as before. However, we have been required to legally change the domain of the site to something more generic, and that domain is PCPrices.net. Think of it as PCPrices.net/Mac, if you will. The term 'PC' stands for personal computer, and in our case, those computers manufactured by Apple. In the end, it's just a domain name change, and even though we cannot use the term 'mac' in our domain, it'll be clear that our devotion to the platform has not changed, and we'll continue to provide you with the most detailed Mac pricing information available.
To sum up, Mac Prices or MacPrices.com can now be found at the following domain: http://www.pcprices.net
- Steve Hildreth
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Pricenet Central is the organization behind PBCentral.com and PCPrices.net. Our company was founded in 1996 to give readers the information they need to make an informed buying decision, from product reviews and specifications to current prices and deals. We serve 15,000 to 40,000 pages per day from our sites. Our classifieds are a popular alternative to auction houses such as eBay and Yahoo, and our price trackers will give you an accurate price on a new Macintosh from many Apple Authorized Resellers. Steve Hildreth, founder, is a registered Apple Developer Connection Member.
Our People:
Pricenet Central is comprised of a team of business professionals, developers, and writers.
Steve Hildreth, CEO & President and Editor-in-Chief
Noah Kravitz, Reviews Editor
Charles W. Moore, Columnist
Joe Leo, Columnist
Steve Hildreth is President of Pricenet Central and President and CEO of Hildreth Enterprises LLC, and he is also a registered Apple Developer Connection Member. He has been publishing Power'Book Central (formerly PowerBookCentral.com) since 1996 and PCPrices.net since 2000.
Noah Kravitz is the Reviews Editor for PBCentral.com. He is an educator, musician, and writer who lives in Oakland, CA and is the author of Teaching and Learning with Technology.
Charles W. Moore is one of the most respected and prolific freelance writers in the Macintosh industry. He has written for numerous Mac-related websites since 1998. In non-Mac journalism, he has four syndicated newspaper columns in Canada and has written for several boating magazines.
Joe Leo is the newest columnist at PBCentral.com. An avid Mac user/aficionado his entire life, he brings with him his passion for writing and background in Journalism, having taught the subject for the last eight years-- including Computers for the last five --at a Catholic elementary school in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contributors:
Antonio Malcolm
Paul Paron
James Galullo
Mary Anderson
Hunter Collins
Note: Apple Computer, Inc. in no way endorses or is affiliated with PBCentral.com or PCPrices.net. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, Mac OS, iMac, iBook, Power Mac, iPod, Xserve, and PowerBook are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
