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From: kjardine@watmum.UUCP (Kevin Jardine)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Atari ST vs. Apple Mac
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 11:06:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 11:06:29 1985
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Summary: 

In article <423@gitpyr.UUCP> royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner) writes:
>Well, there were some fairly exorbitant prices listed for the Mac in the 
>comparison, I must say--makes me want to hock mine immediately :-)
>
>My 512k Mac and imagewriter and an exteral disk drive were being sold for
>$2795 when I purchased it...I bought it through a university, and left off the
>external drive, and paid $2262.  So where did you get your prices???  And
>don't claim that mine was bought a while ago, either--it arrived day before
>yesterday!!
>
>Roy

As I stated in the article, the prices are in the official Apple Canada
retail price list and are in CANADIAN funds.  My point was that Apple 
is charging far more than Atari for a machine that is NOT three times better 
technically (although right now has far more software available).
I'll grant you that some universities are offering special deals on their
Macs, but these are not available for most of the "rest of us".
I am an Apple fan. It took courage and some innovation to bring the
Xerox Star microcomputer's ideas to an (almost) mass market computer,
but I think that is time that Apple stopped asking its dealers to charge
what the market will bear, and starts charging something closer to what
it actually costs to produce the machine.  The official cost for the 512K
upgrade is another example of this practice.  (Remember, the first ball
point pens were $25, and this time, that's in AMERICAN funds before the
days of stagflation.)

Right now, there is no way I can afford a Mac at the prices Apple is
charging.  I may soon be able to buy an ST.

Kevin