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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.164946.26247@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 16:49:46 GMT
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In article <3347@usceast.UUCP> yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall) writes:
>In article <1990Jul19.184108.1055@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>+>                             Apple Computer, Inc.
>+>                      HIGHER EDUCATION PURCHASE PROGRAM
>+>                   Individual Purchase Option Product List
>+>             Prices are for full-time faculty, staff and students.
>+>
>
>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.
>

	On high end systems the Amiga is still cheaper. However,
on educational discount most purchases are for Mac
Pluses/SEs/A500s. It is in that area that the Mac prices are
better. You can get for $715 a Mac Plus with 1MB of ram. You can
get for $1,320 a Mac SE with a 40MB HD. Commodore needs to lower
prices on those machines even further to beat Apple.

>
>kenny
>-- 
>         Ken Yarnall                 ///   yarnall@cs.scarolina.EDU
>          Math Department, USC   \\\///   yarnall@ucseast.UUCP
>           Columbia, S.C. 29208   \\\/   (803)777-6686


	-- 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