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From: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
Message-ID: <10939@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Apr 90 18:07:37 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:

>>>Total:                                          $6494

>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.
>I, too, wonder why Apple hadn't taken this route into account when
>they priced the IIfx.

Well, I would have to check to give you exact figures, but I think a brand
new IIfx via Stanford's education discount with 4 MB RAM and the 80 MB hard
drive runs around $6500, the 160 MB config runs around $7400.  Therefore,
at educational Apple's pricing makes some sense.  But I do agree a little.
Apple tendsto usually make upgrades more costly than buying the new machine.
If anyone wants, I can get the exact figures to the above quoted prices.  I
know that the stripped machine is  below $6000.

---Derek Fong
fong@cive.stanford.edu
thewho@portia.stanford.edu