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From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 16:31:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 16:31:53 1987
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In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>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)
Would you believe the list prices are:
	Mac SE			$2769
	Mac SE w/Internal 20	$3469
	Mac Plus		$2199
	Mac II w/Internal 40	$5369
	ImageWriter II		 $595

As you can see, there appears to be some discrepancy between your quoted
prices and reality.  Prices through UC are around 30% off of the list,
varying by university.  After taxes are taken into account, it seems
unlikely that, even in Canada, your quotes are reasonable.  77% import
duty seems a little unlikely.

>
>Admittedly, the Mac SE/Plus might be slightly better quality.  And because 
	We like to think so :-)
>of a good selection of software, the Mac might be able to do a few things
>the PC can't without adding extras.  But is it really worth 5 times as
>much as a typical PC-clone?  I don't think anybody on this net, except
>perhaps Apple, would think so.   If you were a student, which system would
>you most likely end up with?
Five times, no.  Twice, certainly, I paid full list of $3000 for my first
Macintosh and ImageWriter in Feb. 1984 and never regretted the decision.  And
that was over three years before I went to work for Apple.  Apparently there
are quite a few people outside of apple who think the prices isn't too
unreasonable.  10,000 Apple employees certainly don't own any sizeable
portion of the 3 million (is that number right?) macs that have been sold.

>
>Paul H. Steele      USENET: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Paul
>Acadia University   BITNET: Paul@Acadia
>Wolfville, NS
>CANADA  B0P 1X0     (902) 542-2201x587


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