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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple cuts prices on IIci
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.182706.14814@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Sep 90 18:27:06 GMT
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In article <406@scubed.SCUBED.COM>, warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:
> In article <10129@goofy.Apple.COM> rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
> [stuff deleted]
> >System Configuration              Old Price    New Price      Change
> > 
> >4MB RAM/SuperDrive floppy         $7,469       $5,969         -$1,500
> >4MB RAM/80MB Hard Disk            $8,169       $6,669         -$1,500
> >4MB RAM/80MB Hard Disk (Parity)   $8,669       $7,169         -$1,500
> >4MB RAM/80MB Hard Disk (A/UX)     $8,769       $7,269         -$1,500
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> Am I missing something?  Is this supposed to be a good deal?  These
prices make
> Sun's look good.
You mean something like this:
IPC:8MB RAM/200MB Hard Disk/16" color monitor    $10,000
Add a 16" color monitor, keyboard (remember, it's extra) and 100M external disk
to the A/UX system to get it equivalent, and the price is pretty much the same.
Where this leaves the IIfx is another story. It's a matter of how much value
you place on running Mac software over the speed advantage of the Sun (and
possibly specific software only available on the Sun).

Sun is putting real pressure on the pricing at the top of the Mac range.
Things can only improve.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu