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From: merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Where's the color?
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Date: 10 Mar 89 14:53:54 GMT
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In article <520@umiami.miami.edu> gtww2z9z@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross) writes:
>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?"

Okay, a few notes.

From what I understand, internal colour monitors for the Macintosh Plus/SE
would be quite expensive because of the size.  I don't know specifics, but
that's the way I understood it.

What to say to the fun folks from IBM:

"Gee, 256,000 colours!?  That's neat!  Tell me, though, what software supports
all those colours?  And, well, where can I get a printer to print all those
colours for under $4000?  So, in the end, other than playing all those really
nifty games, what does the colour end up getting me?"

Also, check your prices.  The Model 30 does NOT have a '286.  IBM makes a
special Model 30-286.  The pricing that I have seen puts it, with a monochrome
monitor and 2 disk drives, around the same place as a Macintosh Plus.
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