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From: alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
Message-ID: <1577@pdn.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 13:52:57 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 17 13:52:57 1987
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In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>The typical price of a 640K, 20Meg PC-compatible here in Canada is around
>$1500 (and this often includes a cheap dot-matrix printer).  Both Tandy
>and Epson have had such offers over the summer.  For most students, $1500
>is quite affordable.  Then I tell them how much an equivalent Macintosh
>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)
>
Either you are confusing Mac SE prices with Mac II prices, or Mac prices
in Canada are far higher than they are here (U.S.).  A Mac SE with 20MB
HD lists at $3600 and can actually be purchased for about $3K.

Secondly, the equivalent to the Mac SE is most emphatically NOT the PC,
but the AT.  The SE's price is comparable to the PS/2 Model 50's price,
although still high by comparison with some AT clones.  But you always
pay more for a name brand.

Apple doesn't have any computers that really can be fairly compared to
the PC or XT models.  The Macs (all of'em) are too superior, the
Apple IIe's and IIc's are inferior and the IIGS is targeted at a different 
market, although that is changing (the PC's and XT's will soon be retargeted to
the same market the IIGS sells in).

--alan@pdn