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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Message-ID: <6376@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 29 Nov 90 06:42:43 GMT
References: <1990Nov29.005944.17800@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <_M{^JJ&@rpi.edu>
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Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes:

>In article <1990Nov29.005944.17800@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> 
>           eric@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Eric Brunelle) writes:

>Apple is in business to make money.  This isn't all that strange, it 
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>production going.  They're in business to make money too, after all.
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>us, it's in business to make money.  The machines, as is, are apparently 
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>> been either greedy, lazy, or incompetent.
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>Greedy?  Perhaps (at least with the LC and IIsi).  Lazy?  Incompetent?  
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>Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
>ITS Systems Programmer
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA

I'm quite sure Apple exist to make money, it would be nice if they could give
us something back for it too. I'm sorry, but a while back many people were
complaining that one university or other was charging $10 or $20 more or less
than another one and I just have to laugh. I live in Australia and the prices
that Apple Australia charge for a Macintosh you would not believe. We wind up
paying roughly 2 to 2.5 times what you do in the U.S. I was considering
investing in an LC with 13" AppleColor Hi-Res monitor and the 512K Video DRAM
card when I heard about the new Macs and inquired about the price.

Just $AUS 4972. And that's at consortium prices. I hate to think what one of
the local dealers would shaft me for, probably add another couple grand easy.

Just to give you an idea the Apple Australia recommended price in 1990 for an
SE/30 2mb/HD40 was $AUS 9,950 (that's from the official price list).
A Mac IIfx Colour System (IIfx 4/80, 4-8 display card, Hi-Res RGB Monitor,
extended keyboard) set you back $AUS 19,025.           

Is Apple greedy? YOU BET THEY ARE.

(P.S. I don't need any accusations of being a Mac-hater. I've got a 512K(not E)
and an SE - I wouldn't use anything else.)
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