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From: kjardine@watmum.UUCP (Kevin Jardine)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.atari
Subject: Atari ST vs. Apple Mac
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 11:55:36 EDT
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Here are some price comparisons (in Canadian dollars, $1 CDN ~ $.7 US,
officially, but in the computer market, it seems more like $1 CDN ~ $.6 US)
The Apple prices are from the Apple Canada Suggested Retail Price List.

	Item			Atari ST		Apple Macintosh

512K 68000 computer with 1	$1400			  $4095
360K (500K unformatted) 3 1/2"
floppy drive and a monochrome
monitor

High density dot matrix printer ~$300-$400		  $950
(1280 dots per line)

Daisy wheel printer		 $399			  $3280


Floppy Disk Drive		 $260			  $775

Hard Disk			~$700-$800 		  $3125
				   (15M)		  (10M)

The monochrome monitor has a higher resolution (640 X 400) than the Mac's,
and a colour monitor (that can show 512 colours) is also available for
$600.  I'll grant you that dealers may substantially discount their Mac's,
but not by THAT much.  Of course Mac owners pay for QUALITY, right? [:-)]