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From: jpm@cs.hut.fi (Jussi-Pekka Mantere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
Message-ID: <JPM.90Aug26190126@sauna.hut.fi>
Date: 26 Aug 90 17:01:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pkovac@pro-truckstop.cts.com's message of 17 Aug 90 08:36:10 GMT

In article <3965@crash.cts.com> pkovac@pro-truckstop.cts.com (Peter Kovac)
 writes:

   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.

As someone wrote in a recent Mac-mag, (where's my Knowledge Navigator
when I need one :-), Macintosh is the only computer he is willing to
pay premium for.

I totally agree...

Chape