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From: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: More Mac prices
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Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 16:08:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 18 16:08:57 1987
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Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Just to clear up some confusion about my earlier posting on Mac prices
in Canada, the prices I quoted are from Apple Canada's official price
list.  The $6150 for 20Meg Mac SE is the price for such a configuration
in Canada in CANADIAN dollars.  If my next door neighbour wanted to buy
his kid a 20Meg Mac SE with IW II printer, it would cost him $7960 including
tax.  If he could bargin good, he might get 10% knocked off of that, but
our local Apple dealer doesn't do that very often.  I got 29% off, but
I threatened to go elsewhere and for certain reasons he wanted my business
(I work at the local University).

Some people have mentioned that Apple offers very good educational discounts
and that is true.  Unfortunately, not everyone works at an educational
institution.  And furthermore, the educational pricing only applies to
university bought Macintoshes.  In other words, if a prof wanted to buy
a Mac with his own money (not research funds), it would cost him the list
price minus our dealer's generous 10% educator's discount.

Even with Apple's 40% discount, it is still overpriced and makes it difficult
to convince the Administration that a $3800 20Meg MAC SE is a cost effective
alternative to $1300 20Meg PC clone.  We have only this year been able to
establish a 12-station Maclab.  Compare this to our proliferation of PC's:
a 40-station and 15-station labs, as well as PC's in most offices.

Would Apple care to comment?


Paul H. Steele      USENET: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Paul
Acadia University   BITNET: Paul@Acadia
Wolfville, NS
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