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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: affordable macs
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Date: 20 Nov 89 22:19:59 GMT
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In article <1989Nov20.210717.15146@cs.rochester.edu> miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller) writes:
>Affordable mac? Sure. Gimme the hardware equivalent of a NeXT box, running
>System 7.0 / 8.0 or whatever, with 16Meg or Ram, 600Meg of disk, 32MHz
>68030, a 56001 with 16bit a-to-d and d-to-a, and charge me $1500. for it.
>That's affordable!

Apple is never going to win on price/performance.  That's because Apple, like
IBM, doesn't even play the game.  They justify high hardware margins based
on their software R&D costs, and continued demand for systems.

It would seem to me that if they built more factories, and took less margin,
they'd wind up with MORE money in their pockets overall, due to increased
sales.  Obviously, Apple disagrees, so we all pay through the nose.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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