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From: gkj@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gregory K Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Consortium pricing on new macs
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Date: 19 Oct 90 20:12:13 GMT
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In article <47152@cornell.UUCP> wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:
>At Cornell, Mac Classic 1meg, no hard drive: 815
>                        2meg, 40m hd       :1224
>
>In NYC, in an advertisement in today's NYT, the Mac Classic is
>going for $750.  I think the IIsi was $2300, but I'm not sure.
>
>Some educator's discount.

It is true that the Mac Classic is advertised at $750.  But they will try
to sell you a whole bunch of things with it, because $750 is just about
dealer cost on the machine.

I went in, bought a Mac Classic with 4 MB of ram and a 40 mb internal hard
drive for $1462, which is less than what I would have paid had I bought
the machine at $750, bought a memory expansion card at the educational
discount price here of $116, 3 SIMM's and an external hard drive mail order.
And they'll have it for me by next week, and I won't have to void the
warranty by installing anything myself.  So I think I got a pretty good
deal (I imagine dealer cost on the machine to be $1200-1300).  But most
importantly, I won't have to wait six weeks for them to deliver the
"educationally discounted" machines.

--Greg Johnson