Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac Message-ID: <1990Jul18.185642.11880@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 Jul 90 18:56:42 GMT References: <46200101@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <58277@bbn.BBN.COM> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 20 >}40 Meg Hard Drive Model: $2100 > >Whoopee... I'm real impressed. I just bought my wife a 16Mhz 386SX w >super VGA interface, 13" VGA monitor, SCSI, 2 serial, 1 parallel, >1.2Meg floppy, 2megs of memory & 40meg hard disk. $2100. My only Would everyone PLEASE stop a minute and realize that that is LIST price, NOT street price! Educational discount price will probably be under $1,000 for the 40MB version, they are already discounting by over 60% on some models. Did you know you can get a Mac Plus/1MB for $720? A Mac SE/40MB for $1,400? I'm hardly singing the praises of apple but we should realize that the Amiga isn't that much cheaper anymore. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else