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From: wichers@husc9.harvard.edu (John Wichers)
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Subject: Re: Scoop on New Macs and Printers.
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Date: 27 Jun 90 12:13:55 GMT
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In article <6645@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> bach@vax1.udel.edu (Baskaran Subramaniam) writes:
>Another interesting thing I notice about the prices is that, when I compare 
>the prices of the existing Macs quoted in the article with the prices quoted 
>by our University, I find that the Mac SE/30 prices are about 56% cheaper at the
>university, whereas the price of a MacIIci is only 42% cheaper!  For some 
>reason Mac SE/30s are discounted heavily for the university!  The prices of
>SE/30s dropped by about $600 last month at our university.  Did the general
>market also see a price drop recently for the SE/30s?  Does anybody know if
>there is going to be another price cut for the SE/30s at universities?  We are
>thinking of getting a couple of SE/30s for our lab now, should we wait a little
>longer?

A month or two ago, Apple lowered the (educational, I dunno about market)
prices on the Plus, SE, and SE/30. Because of this, you'll probably find a 
greater educational discount for the compact macs than you will for the 
II line.

As for holding out, I'd wait until one or more of the new macs comes
out. You may well decide that one of those will do the job for less
(or, alternatively, the introduction of the new macs will force the price
of the SE/30 down). Then again, that's just a guess. My advice is worth 
what you paid for it.  =8^)

--jjw

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