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From: bparsia@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
Message-ID: <16332@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 13:55:30 GMT
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In article <2337@network.ucsd.edu>, barry@network.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown) writes:
> In article <1990Apr08.043521.1151@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) writes:
>>In article <9573@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> chris@helmholtz.sdsc.edu (Chris Ziomkowski) writes:
>>>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.

Sure, it's a far cry from the *Apple SUGGESTED retail pricing*, but if you look
in the New York Times Science section (or MacWorld/MacUser) you'll find that
the base line fx runs at about $6000-8000. That's *with* (I think) the memory.
I wouldn't be surprised if the memory cost a *bunch* more than you guessed.
> 
>>Well, you might want some video output :-)
>>Add something like $400 - $5000 depending on your video requirements
>>I think you've picked a good way to go about a //fx purchase.
> 
> Chris doesn't seem to be far off the mark, actually.  I've been looking
> though the local classfied ads in the paper and have come up with
> these figures:
> 
> Used Mac II (color 8-bit monitor, 40 meg HD,      $3200
>              5 megs RAM)
> IIfx motherboard upgrade                          $2900
> Apple FDHD drive upgrade                          $ 600
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Total                                             $6700
> 
> The FDHD drive is, of course, optional.  And from what I've been
> reading on the net, the IIfx upgrade is $2900, not $2200.
> 
> A brand new Apple RGB monitor and 8-bit card (at educational
> prices) runs about $1200.  With that, Chris's price comes to about
> $7700.
> 
> I, too, wonder why Apple hadn't taken this route into account when
> they priced the IIfx.
> 

Simply because they did take into account that almost no reseller would price
the fx at what they suggest. Anyone know the list price for a plus? Anyone
actually pay that astronomical figure?

Unversity pricing gives about the same discount (though in some places, a
university price is more than a street price).

Shop around before you go the wierd upgrading root. With almost every Apple
upgrade that I've priced or read about (not to many, to be sure), it was a
better deal to sell the old computer and buy a new one.

Bijan J. Parsia