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From: isle@dartvax.UUCP (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
Message-ID: <7449@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 16:15:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 16:15:32 1987
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In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>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)
>

$7970?  Apple ups the price that much for Canada???  Our student price
for a MacSE with 20meg is $2199 without keyboard.

As for the quality of IBM compatables, put it this way...
I can go out and build one in my dorm room one weekend for $500 or so...
It's very easy to do...there's not a whole lot of substance to one.

Ken

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