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Subject: Re: A sad day...
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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:04:23 GMT
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mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes:

|In article <1991Mar16.221739.21956@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca| mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
||In article <27dc15b6-a2e.5comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us|
||akcs.gregc@vpnet.chi.il.us (*Greg*) writes:
|||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

||     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

|Precisely the point!  We don't HAVE to buy Compaq!  Show me a Mac clone that
|you can go out and throw together yourself for a couple thousand bucks.  The
|main problem here is the proprietary thing. 

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|You also mentioned being out of the market for some time.  I can assure you,
|the Mac prices are still outlandish.  And yes, so are the Compaq and IBM
|prices.  But, as you said, I can go to Johnny's Rice Box and pick and choose
|and put together a top-of-the-line system "REAL REAL CHEAP."  :-)

	In the case of IBM, Compaq, and the MAC you are
	paying to hardware functionality, increased
	reliability over "Johnnys Rice Box", and your share
	of the engineering costs that were needed to develop
	a viable system and persuade software developers to
	write/port products to your box.

	In the case of "Johnny's Rice Box" you are paying
	for hardware functionality, a better price
	performance ratio, and, in all probability, you are
	*NOT* paying your share of the royalties that IBM is
	entitled to, but unable to collect, in compensation
	for their original development costs.  

			Jerry

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