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From: waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
Message-ID: <7432@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 11:49:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 11:49:24 1987
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Summary: Your figures are a little high, no?

In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>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.
>  :
>           PC-clone:   $1650.
>           MAC SE:     $7970.
>           MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)
>  :
Your figures seem just a tad inflated...
The prices here at Dartmouth (an AUC school but bottom level street prices
are not much more from what I've seen in the papers and mags) are more like
            MAC SE:     $2750.  (SE with hard disk & ImageWriterII).
            MAC Plus:   $2480.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC & ImageWriterII)
            Mac Plus:   $1825.  (Includes a supercheap SCSI hard disk and no
                                 printer as there are many scattered around
                                 campus as well as numerous public laserwriters)
And the Mac you'll get for $1825 will be much more powerful and useful than the
PC-clone you'll get for $1650.