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From: ali@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68020 Upgrades & Macintosh
Message-ID: <1181@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 18:56:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  6 18:56:01 1986
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In article <385@plx.UUCP> ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
>The following is from comp.sys.mac:    Read it and weep!!
>>Next year there will be three Mac computers, the MacPlus, Aladdin, and Paris.
>>Aladdin is the code name for Apple's $2795 68020 Mac with double 800k drives.
>>It will look like the MacPlus and it will be Apple's last upgrade ($899) for
>>the Mac. It will have two slots on the motherboard and the keyboard will have
>>MS DOS-like function keys.  Apple will bundle the Aladdin with HD 20 SCSI for
>>$3495.  The insides should have a 16MHz, 68020 processor, a 68881 math
>>co-processor, an 80dpi screen, and an option for 1.6MB double 3.5" drives.
>>
>>Paris is Apple's $4-7K SUN/AT/VAX killer. ... At
>>$6995 you can have a color Paris.  Memory size was not mentioned.
>>Compatibility is the name of the game with Paris.  Apple wants as many third
>>party boards and as much software as possible.  This system CAN support
>>multi-tasking, so it has to be as "open" and standard as possible.

Let's see:

Aladdin, for only $2795, you get the same wonderful Mac look (the one
ComputerLand dealer's say multitask). 68020, 68881, double 800K drives,
Ms-DOS like function keys (wow!). The Amiga, on the other hand, with
double 880K drives, with a real sad 68000, some wimpy little graphics chips,
multitasking, several thousand colors, sells for under $1500. For another
$500 or $600, you get IBM compatibility.

If I weep, I weep at the Mac users stuck with the same basic Mac (only
now Mac "double" plus) despite a price tag of almost $3K. I also weep at them
because they have to pay close to $7K to get multitasking and colors.

I thought when my friends at Apple were saying "wait till you see what
Apple's got" they were talking about something good. The Paris sounds good,
but only in a way that the Sun or Xerox workstations do. 

Ali Ozer, ali@navajo.stanford.edu