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From: dxjsb@dcatla.UUCP (Jack S. Brindle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Price Increases Vs Competition
Summary: There may be more than meets the eye...
Message-ID: <9140@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 13:59:14 GMT
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Reply-To: dxjsb@sunb.UUCP (Jack S. Brindle)
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With all the wailing and nashing of teeth over the price increases, noone
has given thought to two things. 
1)   Over the life of the Mac, prices have dropped. It is far cheaper to
     buy a Plus today than it was to buy a 128K Mac on its introduction.
     Secondly, it costs very little more to buy a Mac SE today than the 128K
     machine cost; And you get far more power (and memory).
2)   Could Apple be posturing the current machines, making way for new
     products? Historically, they adjust the prices of their current
     machines several weeks before new computers are announced. Looks to me
     like there are now "natural" slots for a cpu between the Plus and the
     SE and also between the SE and the II. Things could get interesting
     real soon!
Or, their supply of DRAMs has dwindled, with the clone makers (especially IBM)
having soaked up the supply of chips. Spot market chips are far more
expensive than contract prices. Maybe they are right...
(I prefer the new cpu suggestion, myself... we will see! :-).
Jack Brindle