Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh Portable and IIci Intro Message-ID: <472@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 22 Sep 89 11:47:56 GMT References: <34888@apple.Apple.COM> <1531@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <1466@intercon.com> Sender: root@castle.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: LFCS Enya Admiration Society Lines: 24 In-reply-to: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) In article <1466@intercon.com>, amanda@intercon (Amanda Walker) writes: >In article <1531@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael >A. Pasek) writes: >> Yow!!! Don't get me wrong, these sound like REALLY nice machines, >> but (like the subject line says) I don't have ten grand just laying >> around.....what happened to "The Computer For The Rest Of Us" ? > >It's called the "Macintosh Plus" or "Macintosh SE." It's just that >"the rest of us" has gotten to be a bigger group than it used to be. >A broad product line (which is significantly more intercompatible than >any other vendor's) is a strength, not a weakness. The question (or a similar question) still stands, I think. With this immense increase in processing power per buck, and all these wonderful machines now available, why does The Power To Be Your Best (even with a lowly Mac Plus) cost the man-in-the-street $2500 (European prices)? >Amanda Walker Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Fais que ton reve soit plus long que la nuit.