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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Fred Zeats IV)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Consortium pricing on new macs
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.061616.1300@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 06:16:16 GMT
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Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Fred Zeats IV)
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In article <79186.27140AA8@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG] Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
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]Brian W. Ogilvie writes in a message on 06 Oct 90:
]BWO]  Here at the University of Chicago, the computer store has decided 
]BWO]  to price the Mac Classic 2/40 for $1350, which is only 10% off 
]BWO]  the list price which various rumors have given. I am wondering 
]BWO]  if other consortium schools are pricing the machines at similar 
]BWO]  levels, or whether the U of C has once again decided to gouge 
]BWO]  its students and staff. ...

Gouge Gouge Gouge..

]Latest MacWEEK reports that list price on that machine will be $1499, and that
]dealers will buy it from 20-28% off list.  In the same article, dealers are
]quoted as saying something like "if people think we're gonna discount THIS one
]very much, they're nuts.  We got no room.  We gotta make *some* margin."
]
]So perhaps the $1350 isn't such a rip.  'Course, you should wait to see what
]your neighborhood dealer is going to charge.

The educators/Non-Profit/School/Student cost for the new Mac Classic is
just over $1000 with the 40 Meg HD and the 2 Megs of RAM.

The price for the Mac IIsi with an 80Meg HD and 5 Meg of RAM is $3000 and
some change..

How do I know?  Apple said so...


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