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From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
Message-ID: <1990Apr08.043521.1151@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 04:35:21 GMT
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In article <9573@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> chris@helmholtz.sdsc.edu (Chris Ziomkowski) writes:

>Am I missing something in the pricelist below? Any ideas or 
>comments are appreciated.
>
>MacII (Pre-Owned Electronics)                   $2195
>Logic Board Upgrade                             $2200
>Memory (Absolutely no idea. Totally guessing!)  $1000
>Quantum 105 MB drive                            $ 699
>Apple 1.4 Meg HD Drive                         ~$ 400
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Total:                                          $6494
>
>This is a far cry from the $10,000-$12,000 I've seen it being priced at. Have
>I missed something here? I'll never understand how Apple arrives at such
>outrageous figures.
>
>Chris Ziomkowski                             The SALK Institute, CNL

Well, you might want some video output :-)

Add something like $400 - $5000 depending on your video requirements
(low-end would be greyscale or monochrome video, small monitor.  High end
would be a nice 19" Radius display with the Apple 8/24GS card.) Those are
guesstimates for prices.  Otherwise, I think you've picked a good way to
go about a //fx purchase.  You might also want a beefier power supply
with the nice quiet fans like the //fx includes; that'll be $300 at Apple's
ripoff prices, no doubt.

_Dan


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