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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Is Apple Dumping Mac IIs?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 16:37:34 GMT
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I just got a new price list from our campus Apple
store. I noticed (with no special effort to emphasize
it on the list) that faculty, staff, and departments
(but not students) can buy a Mac II CPU for $1565,
which is the same price as an SE with two 1.4 floppies.
The price had been (and still is for students) $2550.
Both lists say "While Supplies Last," which seems to
answer my question above.

I suppose it makes some sense since Apple now has
the IIcx,i and IIx. But I bought a Mac II in the first
place on the grounds that its six slots would enable it
to be upgraded as the technology advanced. Apple's
strategy of obsoleting it seems to be a betrayal of
that reasonable, to my mind, expectation.

Plainly, Apple will make more money the way they are
going. But they will also generate still more ill will.
What about those who buy the IIcx or i and find that
later improvements are not made easily and cheaply
available to them. On the other hand, a IIci CPU is
advertised for $3792 and an upgrade to the IIci (not
clear if it is available for a II) for $1758. That
would seem to imply that I could buy a II and upgrade
it to a IIi (if such a beast exists) for $3308. Sounds
like a good deal.

I'd be interested in any comments.

Steve Goldfield