Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!sellers From: sellers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Todd Sellers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ? Message-ID: <6466@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 20 Aug 90 18:45:58 GMT References: <3965@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: sellers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Todd Sellers) Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Lines: 30 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. If the Mac Classic is similar to the SE or Plus, the $500-$700 price >range would be best. After all, an IBM XT clone costs around $400 and an AT >clone is about $700. > In the above example you are comparing Apples to lemons (no pun intended). What is the price for an IBM 20MHz 386 with an IBM Monitor and IBM Keyboard? I think those prices are much closer to Apple's. Don't get me wrong, I still think that Apple's prices are too high, I just don't think that you can compare a Macintosh to a PC clone considering price. +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | Todd Sellers | EMail to (sellers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM) | | NCR E&M Columbia | or (todd@pibtest.Columbia.NCR.COM) | | West Columbia, South Carolina | | | 29169 | | +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+