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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Where's the color?
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Date: 16 Mar 89 15:41:00 GMT
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/* Written  2:00 pm  Mar 10, 1989 by prw@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG in uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */

I once read (in MacWeek I think) that one of the problems of doing a
color SE is that color CRTs have longer necks on them and don't easily
fit into the SE case.  I'm sure there is a hardware person out there
somewhere that would know whether this is legit or not.

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It is true that color CRT's, especially data grade ones, have longer
necks. But that is not a reason not to offer one. There is ONE and
ONLY one reason Apple would not sell a color Mac cheaper that a 
Mac II : they figure that they will make more money that way. All
Mac are far overpriced, compared to what one gets in top-notch
PC clones (and, at the price IBM sells to large organizations,
a genuine IBM lemon.) It would be trivial to make a bigger case.
It is also true that color drawing takes more horsepower than
mono - all Mac's are underpowered, and a less than Mac II would
likely be too slow, even for mac, people who are used to sluggishness.

Doug McDonald