Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs.umn.edu!oleary From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Apple Trade-in Offer Message-ID: <3764@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 16 Apr 91 19:23:17 GMT References: <3757@ux.acs.umn.edu> Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services Lines: 33 In article norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Norton Chia) writes: >oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes: > >>What's even worse is that I could upgrade my year-old SE to an SE/30 for >>$1250 (a price which has not dropped one cent since I bought my SE!!!!). >>However, I were to trade it in and buy an SE/30, I'd get a comparable >>machine that has only 3 Meg memory (I'd keep my extra two, since Apple >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >It's been a while since I've seen people who think they know what they're >talking about on the net - 3 megs in an SE/30!! Maybe with 512K SIMMs if >the SE/30 took them. One meg plus the two left over from your SE? Nahh... > >IMHO, he probably deserves some other computer. *Sigh* I didn't say I would be using a SE/30 with 3 Meg, I said it would be the SE/30 I would be stuck with. If you want me to fill the other two slots, that would bring the price difference to around $315 more for a machine with just one more Meg. Was that an attempt to justify Apple's trade-in pricing or just a poorly thought-out attempt at a flame? --------- Doc ********************** Signature Block : Version 2.4 ********************* * | "Please put litter in its place" * * "Was it love, or was it the idea | ---McDonald's packaging * * of being in love?" -- PF | Wouldn't that be on the ground? * * (BTW, which one *is* Pink?) | * * | --->oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu<--- * ****************** Copyright (c) 1991 by Doc O'Leary ********************