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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: IIgs vs Mac LC (was Re: Stellar 7 re-release)
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.084303.18410@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 90 08:43:03 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
>For those interrested,...
>Here's what the MacWorld article says (I stole this issue form the office:)
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>As for the education market, the mac LC has tougher competition.  Universities
>may want more power and expandability than the mac LC offers [THEN GET A GS, DA
>MNIT!]--especially if they are connecting to a UNIX network or doing multimedia
> work.  But for K-through-12 schools, the mac LC, with its Apple IIe board and
>low-cost color, [ABOUT 400% THE COST OF THE //E OR MORE!] is a good deal
>[COMPARED TO A CRAY].  Apple claims that the mac LC will sell to schools for th
>e same price as--or even less than--an Apple IIGS [TRY TWICE AS MUCH!].

  How much do schools pay for a IIgs system?  (Anyone know the actual
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Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
Where can a nation lie when it hides its organic minds in a cellar dark and
grim?  They must be ...  very dim.