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From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New Macintoshes and Apple's Satellite Announcment
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Date: 17 Oct 90 00:04:39 GMT
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kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Fred Zeats IV) writes:
->Mac LC: Available January 91.  This machine is designed for one purpose and
->	one purpose only.  Kill the Apple ][ line.  It is being targeted at
->	schools (It can emulate an apple //e) and small businesses.  It has
->	limited expandability and will cost about $3,000 (with monitor and
->	keyboard and 40 Meg drive).  I hope it falls on its face.  The Apple
->	//e emulation card is rumored to cost about $1000 extra.

blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>Suggested retail price on the IIe emulation board is $199.  Available
>March 1991, according to the announcement.  Mac LC's suggested retail
>price is $2499, (2Mb/40Mb hard disk) with the 12" color monitor being
>$599 extra.  (12" monochrome is $299, although that defeats the idea of
>a low cost color Mac.)  I'd expect substantial discounts for
>educational institutions.

Also you are forgetting that there will be a 2 floppy "education"
edition of the LC. In Australia this is to sell for about the same price as
the Classic 2/40 (~AUS$2,700) so I expect that would also be true in the
US. With discounts that might put the ][e compatible LC with colour screen
at around the $1500 range. Guess we'll have to wait and
see how things pan out.

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Brendan Mahony                   | brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz       
Department of Computer Science   | heretic: someone who disgrees with you
University of Queensland         | about something neither of you knows
Australia                        | anything about.