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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Support Apple II's
Keywords: Macs are sweet and don't cost that much!
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Date: 13 Nov 89 00:01:16 GMT
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In article <5595@umd5.umd.edu> jg108@umd5.umd.edu (Martin Walser) writes:

>can get a Mac IIcx LOADED with all kinds of stuff for under $4500. I mean, the
>whole 9 yards. 40meg hard drive, color monitor/card, 4megs RAM, some software,
>printer, etc.... Right now it's the IIci <--- note the "i" that's the big bucks

A similar IIgs would be under $2,500 retail, if Apple had educational prices
for the IIgs it would be less than $1,500.

>with the GS, you really can't make hard-core comparisons like that until you
>actually sit down with BOTH a Mac and a GS and USE them... not just gloss over

I'm a programmer and I own both a IIgs and a Mac SE.  My IIgs is much more
flexible and faster with a TransWarp than my SE.  It's just more fun to use
too.  I only crank up the SE when I have to program something on it.  Some
folks don't even have $4,500 to spend on a computer so we are talking about
two vastly different price ranges here.

Rick
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu