Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: cromwell@acsu.buffalo.edu (mark j cromwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: New Macintoshes and Apple's Satellite Announcement Message-ID: <40963@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 16 Oct 90 15:26:26 GMT References: <1990Oct16.063654.2744@isis.cs.du.edu> <5735@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu In article <5735@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: > The Macintosh LC (2/40) has a SMRP of $2,499. Expect educational >bundles to include the new 12" RGB monitor for around $2000. (That's my >guess - no "sources" behind it). > Oh, and by the way, Fred - The Apple IIe card will sell for $199. >Source is the Applelink announcement that was posted here. > > "Apple II forever." Apple probably just killed what's left of their share in the education market. Educators are willing to pay $1500 for a computer. $2000+ is just too much. The LC is over priced, they won't even consider buying it. Not to mention the Macintosh has virtually no educational software. IBM's machine has the magic $1500, greater storage capacity and what educators really love: COLOR. That and the IBM name spells doom for the education market for Apple. A lot of educators want "up to date", affordable, business oriented compututers: IBM (hey, it's true, that's what they think). What I consider sad is that the Apple II didn't have to die. It's not in the workstation market. It's main competitors always were the Amiga and the Atari. Getting its performance up to that level would have been easy. Alas Apple has let the II lay fallow for so long that it let the education market bleed to death. I suppose Apple thought it natural that they would buy monochrome Mac SEs for $2700 with no educational software. I'd also like to point out that Macintosh technology is itself looking pretty ragged. The 68000 is a > 10 year CISC chip. When the price / performance ratio gets too high Apple will start looking at the 88000. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. - Mark Cromwell "Macintosh forever!"