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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
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Date: 24 Jul 90 01:11:28 GMT
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In article <139326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
>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 ? 
>

	Of course it is! You aren't considering that the Macs
COME with the screen built in. And although a color monitor is
nice for most people (who buy on Educ. Disc.) the Apple
monochrome is just fine. It DOESN'T flicker and looks very solid.
The price for an A500 w/1MB, 2 drives, monitor and 20MB is
$1,369. This makes the Mac $280 cheaper.
	I'd say that at that price the SE/20 will be the most
sold Mac (on discount that is). An equivalent Amiga is much more.
	And I believe I said that these prices don't bring Mac
down to Amiga pricing on the high end models, just the low end.


>--
>--Chuck McManis						    Sun Microsystems
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>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
>"I tell you this parrot is bleeding deceased!"


	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
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