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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More Mac prices
Message-ID: <1294@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 12:23:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 12:23:02 1987
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Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <3665@pwcs.StPaul.GOV> dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) writes:
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|Now, I don't wish Apple bad - but I would like to see a little
|more competition in the Mac market. Has everybody noticed how
|CHEAP winchesters are for PC's?? I wouldnm't mind if some of that
|'cheap' filtered it's way to the Mac. I can't see paying over $1K
|dollars for a SLOW 20 meg drive - or about $1500 for a REALLY
|SLOW SCSI tape drive.

Comparing drive prices between the Mac and the PC is really comparing apples
and oranges (sorry :-)).  For the PC, all you have to buy is the drive itself,
while for the Mac (at least pre-SE/II), you have to buy not only the drive,
but also a SCSI controller, a power supply and an enclosure.  So the cost
is obviously going to be higher.  With the SE and the II supporting internal
drives, prices should drop for these, but don't expect at the PC levels for
quite some time.  

I don't know where you're getting your prices, but the average 20 mb drive
from a third party vendor is in the $600 range. For over a thousand I got
a DataFrame 40XP which is definitly NOT slow :-).  My plain Mac with the 40XP
is faster then my 386 here at work!

|
|I love the computer that Apple made ( Mac ) , I'm just not crazy
|about the very non-competitive pricing??

|-- 
|Dennis Grittner		City of Saint Paul, Minnesota

Jerry Whitnell				Lizzi Borden took an axe
Communication Solutions, Inc.		And plunged it deep into the VAX;
					Don't you envy people who
					Do all the things You want to do?