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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: New Macs
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Date: 31 May 90 16:40:19 GMT
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In article <90150.063514DANSEGLI@UCF1VM.BITNET> DANSEGLI@UCF1VM.BITNET (Mike Danseglio) writes:
#>What is the current story about the new low-end Macs?  What processors
#>are they gonna run?  What prices will they enter at?  And, most
#>importantly, when will they be released?
#>
#>Mike.
#>#

I don't think any of this is public knowledge yet. Apple has
promised a cheap color Mac which will run Apple II software
(thus answering the demands of the school market) will be
available by the end of the next school year. That promise
was made by Sculley on a video. The June MacWorld has an
article, including an interview with someone at Apple, on
the coming low-cost Macs (there may be other models, too),
but there are no specifics. MacWorld editorializes that there
should be a cheap 68030 Mac with minimum 2 megs of memory;
the implication is that Apple is likely to sell a 68000 with
1 meg instead. MacWorld argues that such a 68030/2-meg Mac
should sell for what the Plus does now. Apple's attitude in
the interview, by the way, is that Apple feels no obligation
to compete with IBM clones in price since the Mac buyer is
getting a superior product. MacWorld mentions that the chairperson
of T/Maker (whom you would think wouldn't need to worry about
price) has an IBM clone at home because of the price
differential.

Steve Goldfield