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From: daveo@Apple.COM (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New Macintoshes and Apple's Satellite Announcement
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Date: 16 Oct 90 22:12:06 GMT
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cromwell@acsu.buffalo.edu (mark j cromwell) writes:
>   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

  The LC has COLOR also.

>   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. 

  Yeah, the 680x0 is looking at least as old as the 80x86 line.  But we have
only 1 680x0 machine being pushed right at the moment.  All of the new 
products, minus the classic, have at least an 020 and 2 megs of ram.
-- 
daveo@apple.com                                               David M. O'Rourke
"I never learned how to use a gun and that doomed me to middle management for
 the rest of my life." -- Steve Martin, "My Blue Heaven"
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