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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Macs Are Not That Expensive (was Re: Macs Suck)
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Date: 20 Jan 91 23:14:10 GMT
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Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
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In article <11341@helios.TAMU.EDU> n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes:

> The only reason PCs are so popular is because they are cheap

I don't think that Macs are that expensive.  Sun Remarketing has been 
selling the Mac Plus for less than $1000 for almost 3 years.  They also
have MacXL's and Lisas running MacWorks Plus for as low as a few
hundred dollars.

A Mac plus has printer port, modem port, high-speed network port, SCSI,
high res bit mapped screen, 1 meg of memory, an operating system, and a
bunch of other features that are buildt in.

When you try to build a PC that has all of these features, the price
rapidly runs up.  And now the classic with hard drive is selling for
about $1100 street price.

If you buy a Mac IIcx, IIci, or IIfx, you are paying a lot of money
for a high end machine.  But if you compare to a similar IBM PC or
name brand machine, you will find that they all cost just about the same.

I purchase PS/2's for one of my clients.  A PS/2-70 386 worksatation that
runs on their network costs almost $14,000 by the time they get their
memory, token-ring cards, and the 8514 high-res display that their software
requires.

-john-

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