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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.130753.13641@santra.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 90 13:07:53 GMT
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In article <1990Sep20.212211.15665@sics.se> boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz) writes:
>can get with mail order from US including tax and freight. We tried to upgrade 
>THINK C, bought in Sweden, but it should take months to get it and cost the 
>same as buying a new one from APDA.

At least some things are better in Finland. I got my Think C upgrade from
Acom (it was a few months late, but I could live with 3.0something for that
time) and it was only 350 FIM, which was about US$75.

>The funny thing is that they add this enormous profit even to software not
>translated into Swedish (not even the manual). Someone is making big money ;-)

Small volumes translate into high prices. We usually buy our software from
ComputerWare. Unfortunately we can't get everything from them.

>Remember that most people (at least in Sweden) don't have the information
>that you all have (news, magazines etc). They go were they bought the
>mac to upgrade and in Sweden this is an Apple RAM upgrade from an Apple
>dealer.

Apple pricing is unbelievable. Knowing what the prices are in Finland,
I guess you should be able to find 1MB SIMMs for around 500 SEK ($90)
or slightly less by calling just a few places. Dealers are making good
profits by selling non-Apple RAM upgrades at high prices by comparing
their price to the official Apple price.

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