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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
Message-ID: <13411@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 16:51:04 GMT
References: <139326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jul24.011128.188@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Jul24.011128.188@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>>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. 

>The price for an A500 w/1MB, 2 drives, monitor and 20MB is
>$1,369. This makes the Mac $280 cheaper.

The A500 will hook into a monochrome monitor just fine.  You can get a fine
monochrome monitor for about $70.  Probably less for a 9" monochrome monitor.
There's also very little reason to include a second floppy if you have the 
hard disk.  Most Amigas and Mac I've seen with hard drives don't bother with 
a second floppy drive.  If you're doing an honest comparison, compare 
similarly equipped systems, please.

IMHO, they're pretty comparable in price.  But it doesn't matter, since no
matter how cheap the Mac is, you're still stuck with a Mac when you buy it.

>>--Chuck McManis					    Sun Microsystems
>	-- Ethan
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