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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
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Date: 23 Jul 90 18:26:48 GMT
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In article <1990Jul19.184108.1055@cunixf.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!

Maybe I can't read, but this conclusion doesn't follow from the list
below. To wit :

->>M5880     Macintosh Plus w/Keyboard, 1 Mb RAM ...................  649.00

This is the same as the _List_ price for an A500 + Keyboard + 1MB of RAM.
The Educational price has got to be better than this, _and_ you get color
instead of mono.

->>M0028LL/A Macintosh SE Hard Disk 20 CPU.......................... 1089.00

Is this less than an A500 w/A590 Hard Disk 20 ? 

->>M5660     Macintosh IIcx CPU 1Mb ................................ 2848.00

This is less than the A3000 ? I thought the A3000 was $2500 on the discount
plan. And it comes with an extra MB of memory.

->>MACINTOSH SE/II KEYBOARDS
->>M0116     Apple Keyboard.........................................   95.00
->>M0115     Apple Extended Keyboard................................  165.00

And don't forget you need a keyboard too.

So how do you come up with "And they're cheaper?"


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