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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: 24 Jul 90 18:30:17 GMT
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In article <1990Jul24.011128.188@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	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.

So don't buy a color monitor. An Amiga 500 with a monochrome monitor doesn't
flicker either because the persistence of the monitor is somewhat greater than
that of the color monitors. I can get a "mac equivalent" resolution mono
monitor for $80. And I'll still have better screen resolution (640 X 440
versus 512 X 344) So what is the point? The point is this is a stupid
comparison. I don't care if the Mac was $1000 less or a $1000 more, if 
it is what you have to buy, then it is. I could just as easily argue
that you can't even get two buttons on your Mac Plus mouse but who cares?


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