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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
Message-ID: <39591@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 01:14:08 GMT
References: <14532@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <7202@goofy.Apple.COM> <2878@castle.ed.ac.uk> <7248@goofy.Apple.COM> <1911@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
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In article <1911@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>In article <7248@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
>: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.

We dropped the retail price on the AppleCD SC to $899 in the USA.  (I'm
sure the educational and other prices dropped as well, but I haven't
seen a press release about that.)  That probably means the "street"
price is comparable to Toshiba's.

--Brian Bechtel		blob@apple.com		"My opinions, not Apple's"