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From: boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.203944.25371@sics.se>
Date: 19 Sep 90 20:39:44 GMT
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I'm a bit puzzled about Apple Sweden's last move. They have cut the prices
a lot for students on something they call SE Education ($1800, I assume this is
not very cheap in US). It is an ordinary SE with 1 Mb RAM and 40 Mb hard disk. 
They sell a lot because most people don't know about system 7 and think that
the only thing they lose is speed (relative a SE/30 with system 6.0.x).

When system 7 comes they all lose. Of cause they can use an old system but
who want to use an old system when you know about that there is one
with a lot of new features. If they upgrade to 2 Mb RAM (VERY, VERY
expensive in Sweden, Apple has almost no competition) then they can
use system 7 but not all of it and probably with slow outline fonts
(I can't be sure about that, some people do miracles with clever programming).

They will sell this SE Education until last December (at this price at least).
This gives me the conclusion that there will not be any low cost mac until 
then OR that this IS the low cost mac. Why build a new 60000 based computer
these days? (The difference in cost compared to one with 68020 could not
be much, but it is all about marketing strategy, isn't it?)

Kent Boortz
boortz@sics.se