Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!husc6!m2c!wpi!macman
From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <15802@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 20 Sep 90 15:31:39 GMT
References: <8444@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <2610@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1990Sep19.203944.25371@sics.se>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1990Sep19.203944.25371@sics.se> boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz)writes:

>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).

From 1 megabyte, the next upgrade is to 2.5 megs. That should be fine for
system 7. Truetype fonts are very fast, faster than ATM, even in the alpha
release. There will also be SOME version of ATM that will work with 7 for
Adobe fonts.

As for prices, my recommendation is to purchase SIMMs through mail order
companies. I realize that this is an inconvenience, but at $49 per meg, you'll
be saving at least 50% off Apple's prices.

>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?)

Three new Macs will be released in October... the SE will be phased out, so
the SE will remain a low cost option along with the new machines.

 
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