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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The LC vs. IIsi
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.163113.27771@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:31:13 GMT
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tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee Thiel) writes:

>>The LC is also aimed squarely at 80386SX
>Windows boxes, and it frequently beats them on both price and performance.

>Well the educational price isn't bad but the dealer price is horrendous from 
>what I have seen.  Local dealers are selling it for $3200.00 w/2 megs Ram/40 megHD and that crummy little 12 inch color monitor.  Thats pretty ridiculous.

  It certainly is, considering that many dealers here are selling an equivalent
combination for <$2200.  In fact, one dealer is selling a 3rd party 14" monitor
(with 640 x 480) together with a 2/40 LC for $2090.


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