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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: List of NEW Mac prices
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Date: 23 Jul 90 19:22:22 GMT
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In article <5274@castle.ed.ac.uk>, nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
> Want to hear something *really* funny?
> 
> I called an Apple dealer here in Edinburgh, for a price quote on
> turning a 2Meg SE/30 into a 4Meg one (that's 2 x 1Meg SIMMS).
> 
> 1100 pounds, or around $1800.
Not strictly accurate - you'd actually be giving the dealer 8 256K
SIMMs in exchange for 4 1M SIMMs (the SE/30 uses SIMMs in units of 4
at a time). Not a bad trasnaction for a dealer, considering PC clone
dealers have to sell whole computers for half as much. And don't
get any used parts to resell in the bargain.

Question: how much R&D does Apple put into stuff like SIMMs (the usual
justification for their high prices)? If they sold this stuff at
competitive prices, they would not only sell to more of their own
customers, but also to users of other machines, since 8-bit wide
SIMMs are in wide use.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu