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From: yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
Summary: Better than the Amiga Ed. program????  I ain't convinced.
Message-ID: <3347@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 15:07:28 GMT
References: <4316UD182050@NDSUVM1> <1990Jul19.184108.1055@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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In article <1990Jul19.184108.1055@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
+
+	Many of you probably saw this in misc.forsale.computers,
+but here it is again. These are Apple's educational discount
+prices. For the low-end models, they are CHEAPER than Amigas.
+Commodore had better do something fast!
+
+
+In article <4316UD182050@NDSUVM1> UD182050@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) writes:
+>Sorry, but I forgot to include this group in the original post.
+>********************************* TOP OF DATA *********************************
+>                             Apple Computer, Inc.
+>                      HIGHER EDUCATION PURCHASE PROGRAM
+>                   Individual Purchase Option Product List
+>             Prices are for full-time faculty, staff and students.
+>
+>
+>                                May   21, 1990
+>
+>[...price listings deleted...]

Preface this with the fact that I can't keep apple's numbering system
straight.

I am not at all convinced that these prices are any better (indde, even as
good) than C='s program.  What is the price for an A3000 *with* a keyboard,
*with* a 14'' *multiscan* monitor, *with* a harddrive?  ~$3100?  Bring one of
these MacIIcxispqrt systems (yeah; the one with the 25 Mhz 030 in it...) up
to the same hardware level.  I bet it costs a good bit more.  I'm just to
tired to do the arithmetic.  Anyway, I'm a mathematician -- I don't have to
add if I don't want to.

+	-- Ethan

kenny
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