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From: gtww2z9z@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Where's the color?
Message-ID: <520@umiami.miami.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 20:29:36 GMT
Organization: University of Miami (IR)
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This really isn't a flame, just a curious question:

The university sell PS/2's in the computer lab.  Now, I own an SE and I would
put it head-to-head with the IBM anyday, but I think strikes be as rather odd.
For less money than even the Consortium price of an SE, you can get a PS/2
Model 30 with COLOR!  Why hasn't Apple seen fit to put a nice little (actually,
a little larger!) color monitor in its Plusses and SE's?  I'm sure Apple's
engineers are quite the knowledgable bunch so it seems wierd why such a
seeming simple improvement has been neglected.

Matter of fact, our IBM salesman uses this to his own advantage: "Why buy
a Mac in black-in-white, when for such-and-such amount less, you can
get a '286 machine with 256,000 colors?  On the Mac, you need to spend
another $1500 for color.  Does that make any sense?"

Comments, rumors, and un-informed anecdotes welcome!

Have a nice day.

-- 
Jason Gross     Comp Sci Ugrad     University of Miami     Class of '91 (?)
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