Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!truesdel From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is Apple Dumping Mac IIs? Message-ID: <1989Oct13.181510.16969@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 14 Oct 89 01:15:10 GMT References: <1989Oct12.163734.26748@agate.berkeley.edu> Lines: 49 steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes: >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. This is a good price and I advised many students (at my school) and faculty and staff to pick one up "while they lasted". Of course, once you pay for a video card, monitor, 4MB RAM, and 80MB HD you are up to $3300. still without color. Add $660 for that. So the savings diminishes once the entire sale adds up. Still a good deal. > Apple's strategy of obsoleting it seems to be a betrayal of [...] Oh no! Not one of THESE again... There's no mystery about the ceasing of manufacture of the Mac II. I can no longer go to a Ford dealer and buy an factory fresh 1987 Mustang. So what? Anyone who thinks the Mac II is obsolete doesn't know what they're talking about. If it's System 7.0 that has you worried Steve, perhaps you will be delighted to hear of the PMMU upgrade you can perform for between $200 and $450 depending on how good a shopper you are. That qualifies as one of the cheapest upgrades in computer history. For some reason, Apple, more than any other company, always gets accused of the most outrageous crimes everytime a new model is introduced. If their logo were flat black instead of rainbow colored, people would probably expect to get their heart cut out and stomped on. It's cheaper to build an Mac IIx than it is to build a Mac II. And more people want them. It is good business sense to quit production. Actually, production of Mac IIs stopped several months ago. They are meerly selling out the rest of the stock. Don't feel glum, Steve. There are literally dozens of ways to upgrade your system. And if it's of any comfort to you, we have labs with Mac IIs and IIxs sitting side by side and virtually none of the students show a preference over one model or the other. --scott -- Scott Truesdell