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From: B5U@PSUVMA.BITNET (George A. Brownfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
Message-ID: <22543B5U@PSUVMA>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 16:52:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 16:52:27 1987
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In article <457@aucs.UUCP>, paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) says:
>
>I have a beef with Apple (although I doubt that they'll really care). I
>work in a university computer center and support the various microcomputers
>on campus.  We have both PC's and Mac's on campus, but certainly a lot more
>PC's in total.  One of the main reasons for the approximate 5 to 1 quantity
>difference between PC's and Mac's is the ridiculously high price of Apple
>products, in particular the Mac SE.
>
>system would cost.  A Mac SE with 20Meg hard disk lists at $6150.  Of
>course, they'll need a printer as well:  another $1045.  And they'll need
>a printer cable: another $50.  After adding tax, the final results are:
>
>           PC-clone:   $1650.
>           MAC SE:     $7970.
>           MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)
>
>
>Paul H. Steele      USENET: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Paul
>Acadia University   BITNET: Paul@Acadia
     
  Those prices are ridiculous - someone along the line is giving you the shaft
in terms of price. We get a 40% discount in terms of cash - a dual floppy SE
is $1799 through the University - one w/ internal 20 meg hard drive is around
$2200. An Imagewriter II is $412.50. These are slightly lower than the average
that appeared on the net - but even downtown an SE is only in the $2500-3000
range. Is there that much of a difference between the US and Canadian dollar,
or that much of an import quota, or what?
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