Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!dptg!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The new Macs
Message-ID: <848@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 12:33:49 GMT
References: <9010152216.AA06276@apple.com>
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In article <9010152216.AA06276@apple.com> THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET ("Throop,Henry B") writes:
>I read in a dealer advertisement here that one of the models with 2 MB RAM
>and a 40 MB hard drive will sell for $1499 list...pretty hard to beat.  If
>Apple could make a Mac like that, why can't they do the same to the gs?

The Mac LC, the only one of the new models that will be able to accept the
][e emulation card, will go for about $3100 with a color monitor, according
to the MacWeek articles.  Add another $200 for the emulator and you have
a $3300. dual-processor system, which schools will probably pay around $1800-2000
for.

My wife, a high school teacher who helped set up their computer room (15 ][e,
3 GS, 2 Macs as file/print servers), breezed through the article and said it 
was too expensive.  She said the only way she could see it selling in the K-12
market would be for schools who could afford ONE computer and needing the
ability to run both A2 and Mac software.  For the same cost they could provide
three or four ][e's and "empower" that many more students at a time.

I honestly think they've shot themselves in the, er, foot with this one.... 

						Bob Halloran
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