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From: pmiach@uluru7.ecr.mu.oz (Paul Anthony MIACH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
Summary: 15 October, new Mac's?
Message-ID: <5096@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 18 Aug 90 13:51:19 GMT
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Well, Hi all,
	I've been reading about the low cost Mac in this news group since it
started (the debate, not the group). About two weeks ago I heard at a talk/
demonstration by a high ranking Apple Aust employe. He gave us some 'hints' as
to what Apple has planed. Before I go any further, he said this is what *Apple
should do*. Ok, so lets see how good my long term memory is...

	1) The Mac+ will not be droped. It will be improved. i.e by adding space
	   for an internal SCSI etc...
	2) There will be no colour Mac SE (We were told that Apple had a demo
	   up and running..) because it would be to expensive. This seems to
	   follow the idea of not making the user play for something that he
	   does not want.
	3) There will be a new Apple Mac II computer(s). It will not be as
	   powerful as the IIci (not that the ci is slow), and I got the
	   impression that it would be faster than a stock Mac II. I have no
	   idea about the CPU etc.
	4) There will be an other MAc portable. The new protable is to be
	   designed on the following plan, i) Weight, ii) Battery life and iii)
	   Mac functionality. There may also be a set of programmes built into
	   ROM.
	5) There will be a new low cost colour monitor for the Mac II's and the
	   IIgs. It will be capable of displaying the full spectrum of colours,
	   all 16.7 million of them. Expected cost, $700 (Aust or US can't
	   remember).
	6) As for the Apple II emulation cards, there won't be any from Apple.
	   (It would be cheaper to buy the Apple II).
	
	Well that is all I can remember. Once again, this was not stated as fact
and as such it could all be BS, not to mention that *I* could be wrong. One
thing that I am sure of is that something BIG is going to happen on the 15
October. We were told that the media hype would be on the same scale as the
origional launch of the Mac was in 1983, if not bigger.
	We were told not to expect any price cuts, only for the amount of power
per buck to increase. So It looks as if there will be no low cost Mac's, only
more powerful ones at the same price.

Paul Miach
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