Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!diemen!tasman!steveh From: steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Apple Trade-in Offer Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 13:46:10 GMT References: <3757@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@diemen.utas.edu.au Lines: 49 Frankly, I don't give a monkey's twott what the hardware configurations are. HE"S GOT A POINT. (By the way, I upgrade ALL of our universities machines, so stop repeating yourselve's). Apple simply charge TOO MUCH. if it wasn't for copyright, i could sell my mac copy for 1/10 of apples price. These machines are pure profit for apple and not many people notice how little is inside the box, and that excludes quantity buys (and if we have to wait 3 months on a lousy 100 classics, then their quantity buy's would have a powerful effect on quanity prices). Apple have the power to do the right thing. Its obvious that the classic is the lowest priced machine ever released within the mac circle, but the low prices have undercut something bad the second hand value of the remaining mac's. People either have the option of selling their plus for $500 (considering they bought it for $4000 only 3 years back) or keeping it. Se owners are even worse off. the se retailed in AU for an easy $7k for a reasonable HD setup. If they can't upgrade, then they canm either sell at stupid prices or stick with a SLOW (like 128k,512,+ speed). but if apple was original with its low prices, and not just cutting some off here and making it up over there, they would offer there previous, and many loyal users, the option of upgrading to the SE/30. i am looking forward to a reasonable price for our useres to upgrade. Its just a matter of when! steve h D their quanity buy would have to besomething powerful on prices of parts). Once upon a time, apple spent millions getting SMD equipment, so that its user had the best and latest But fo