Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!mroussel From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) Subject: Re: A sad day... Message-ID: <1991Mar16.221739.21956@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto References: <46878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <27dc15b6-a2e.5comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1991 22:17:39 GMT In article <27dc15b6-a2e.5comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> akcs.gregc@vpnet.chi.il.us (*Greg*) writes: >[Flame ON!] >You'd have to buy a $6000.00 - $15,000 >dollar machine to do the same performance as PC hardware. I can get a fast >33MHz 386 that will intergrate software and hardware for $4000.00. And this >will blow the doors off comparable Macs. With the newest Macs, >it's different. They >are fast enough. But again, at what price. And how much storage can you >fit in em? The choice is clear. When quoting hardware prices, you should try to be fair. Sure, a Mac is more expensive (usually) than a similarly equipped neighbourhood computer store PC. But how does a Mac compare to an equivalently equipped Compaq? Last I looked, the answer was "very favorably". (By the way, I'm not even sure that your idea of Mac pricing is accurate, but then I'm not in the market right now, so I couldn't say for sure. Apple's pricing has improved considerably in the last year, largely as a result of market pressure.) The point is that large companies have overhead that smaller companies don't. Mac pricing is very competitive for a machine in that class made by a company of Apple's size, especially when you consider that the windowing interface and things like Hypercard come with the machine rather than having to be bought separately. Marc R. Roussel mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca