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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Macs
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Date: 31 May 90 19:11:44 GMT
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In article <1990May31.164019.28906@agate.berkeley.edu>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes...
 
>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


MacWorld is so bogus.  How 'bout an '040 Mac with 32 Megs for the price of a
toaster?

Look, how much is the '030 chipset?  $250?  $350?  How about 2 megs of RAM? 
Maybe $100.  OK, we're already up to around $400 or so.  Add in the price of
the display ("Apple must have color to compete with cheap clones"), all the
other hardware (and there is a fair amount), labor in putting the thing
together, shipping the box from Singapore or wherever, and you're probably up
to around $800 at least.  Probably more.  And that's just the variable costs. 
And that's supposed to sell for the price of a Plus???  Get real.

What Apple will probably do: make a B/W 68000 model (please let it be 16Mhz!)
to replace the Plus and sell it for about $1000 retail.  And there will also be
a 68020 or 68030 color model for $2000-2500.  That's more likely.

Robert


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