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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
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Date: 24 Jul 90 16:48:46 GMT
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On 24 Jul 90 01:11:28 GMT you said:
>In article <139326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck
>McManis) writes:
>>
>>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.
>>
 [Stuff deleted]
>
>	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.
>
     The Amiga 500 with 1 meg, external drive and monitor is $799 for
 the education discount plan.  The Plus system listed is $150 less without
 the second floppy.  Seeing as the plus is way out of date and is monochrome,
 it's not too serious compitition.

     Of coures, Macintosh's have been big sellers even at much higher prices,
 I doubt Commodore is in for a whitewashing.  I would like to see a reaction
 from Commodore, though.  Does Apple still buy their chips from Commodore?
 Anyone have a price on the A500P?

     As for the "Mac Classic", I think that most of the sales for that
 machine will come from prospective Mac SE buyers, which are higher ticket
 items.  The only way Apple could sell a low end machine to compete with
 the A500 is if had the apeal the Amiga has, i.e. color graphics.  Apple
 has demonstrated that they cannot produce a machine with resonable color
 for anywhere near the A500's price.

     As for the SE's screen, don't forget that it is interlace, and would
 flicker if it had more than two colors.

>
>>--
>>--Chuck McManis						    Sun Microsystems
>
>Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
>

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