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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
Summary: Not true...
Message-ID: <1911@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 90 20:10:16 GMT
References: <14532@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <7202@goofy.Apple.COM> <2878@castle.ed.ac.uk> <7248@goofy.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <7248@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
[regarding SpInside Mac on CD-ROM]
:: And all for a mere order-of-magniture higher price for the CD_ROM
:: player, CD, developer subscription fee, ...
:
:Huh?  Being an Apple Partner costs $600/year, and gets you really good 
:hardware discounts, access to MacDTS, access to events like the annual 
:Spring Developers' Conference, and developer mailings, which include 
:things like the CD.
:
:The CD-ROM drive, last I looked, was less costly than, say, Toshiba's.

Not true.  Apple CD-ROM drive retails for $1200, and its educational price is
$1000.  Toshiba's I've seen advertized for $700.

Even so $700 + $600 = $1300
$1300 + $??? for the CD-ROM > $1300

Meanwhile, Inside Mac:  5 @ $25 = $125.

$1300/$125 > 10, so it's an order of magnitude increase.  That's the point....

--Mike