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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Give me a good reason *not* to buy a Mac.
Message-ID: <1113@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 19:15:34 GMT
References: <8815@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Lines: 20
Keywords: AI, PROLOG, Memory limitations, UNIX, OS/2
Summary: Mac hard pressed to be as cheap as PS/2 model 80


<< not cheap >>

I don't have the Macintosh prices on hand, but I do have a list
from the local IBM dealer.  His joe public price for the PS/2 model
80 with 2 megs of 32 bit RAM and the IBM Rochester 70 meg drive is
$4,756.  Eduational price is about 10% less than that!

Can you say fire sale?  Sure, I knew you could.  It's "only" the
crummy old 16 MHz :-) version, but what the hay?...  Last time I
looked, a similarly dec'ed out (that's a pun) Mac II would have
been about $750 more  -- and that is with the educational price.
Anybody know if Apple has lowered its prices a bit lately?..
Like I said, I don't have Apple's very recent prices, so please
elaborate rather than blow-torching, if you must...

I left cost of video monitors out of the above figuring, since it
would be about the same either way.

--Bill