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From: gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 12:36:10 GMT
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In article <3965@crash.cts.com> pkovac@pro-truckstop.cts.com (Peter Kovac) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from boris@world.std.com
>
>>At these prices, Macs seem a lot more competitive
>
>Take a Mac Classic at $2000, take off 30% and you have a $1400 machine (if I
>can do math).  For $1300 you can get a 20Mhz 386 with more slots, 1 meg of
>RAM, a drive, monochrome monitor, and keyboard.  That's enough to bury the Mac
>Classic.

	<sigh>

	But, do you get a mouse, a good GUI (with a large number of
applications on the market that suport said GUI), built-in networking
(LocalTalk still beats <null>), and the graphic/typeface/printer
support that makes Macintosh what it is?  Nope.

	As a car salesman told me, "In the end, it isn't which one
stacks up best statistically, but which one you -like-, which one
feels right."  For me, and most other Mac enthusiasts, that's what
matters.  Not whether or not we can buy a cheap off-brand clone.

	Besides, I don't really think we want the typical garbage of
another comp.sys.mac vs comp.sys.ibm-pc war again, do we?  Nope, I
didn't think so...

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