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From: JALKIO@cc.helsinki.fi (Jouni Alkio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mac vs ST prices
Message-ID: <1108@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 25 Oct 89 00:41:12 GMT
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In article <8910240704.AA05597@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
> 
> The Mega 2 costs $800 more than a 1040, the Mega 4 costs almost $1500 more.
> That's a $700 premium for 2 megs (the 1 -> 4 meg upgrade for the SE is $400)
> 
> I have quoted corporate prices which are VERY agressive for the Mac. I do
> not know how street prices compare.
> 
> Without Appletalk and with little or no price difference (even without GCR
> factored in) the ST is hard to sell to management here. Only the ST's very
> large price difference from the Mac (in the past) got STs in the door. Now,
> the door is closing as Mac pricing is dropped. I can buy a 1 meg Mac Plus for
> $1285 and upgrade it to 4 megs for a total cost of $1685. A Mega 4 would
> cost me about $700 more! Yikes!
> 
> I love my ST but the Mac option sure looks good.

I don't like Mega ST pricing either. But you could as well upgrade your
Atari 1040ST to 4 megs. I guess it wouldn't cost you more than upgrading
a 1 MEG Mac to 4 MEG. It's only the memory chips that cost. Were the
prices for the ST-system street prices? If they were, the comparison
makes no sense. You should then have chosen street prices for the
Mac-system, too.

					Jouni Alkio