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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac pricing and the future of the Mac
Keywords: .New Macs. Upgrades
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Date: 6 Apr 89 00:04:11 GMT
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This message is in response to a couple of messages about mac pricing,
upgrades, super drives, etc. The jist of one poster is obsolesence is
in the mind of the user. If you need a new Mac, you'll buy it or upgrade.

Another poster comes back and says that the Mac was started as a concept,
and was not viable until the Plus came out which forced users to upgrade
to a Plus or die....THere are some good points in each post..and there
was to much stuff to quote.

No Mac user has ever been forced to upgrade, there are people out there
still using 128K Mac's with Write and Paint and its doing what they want
it to. Other people are never satisfied and no matter what Apple did, it
would not make any difference, they would find fault. I for one am glad
that Apple has provided upgrades for most "every" System they've made.
Unlike the "blue" counterparts where your alternative is a clone or a 
new computer, which either way is a new computer for $$$. While the
new upgrade prices are hefty, no one will deny that, you get alot of
performance for your $$ over the machine its replacing, in light of
future system software or if you are moving from say an SE to SE30.
I don't buy the "mac is a Concept" stuff, Job's original visions for
the Mac do not qualify to me as a concept. Marketing scheme perhaps,
but thats as far as it goes. 

The bottom line is you do what you need to do to get your work done.
If that requires a new & faster Mac, you'll pay for it. If your Plus
or SE does the job, why worry about it? BTW  one poster mentioned something
about Apple trade in's for older to newer CPU's, while Apple does not
do this a variety of Dealers do. They'll give you a fair price in trade
for your Mac to which ever new one you want. While NOT all dealers do this
some do. Chances are you could get a few hundred more than you'll get
in trade by selling outright, the opportunity is still there if you do not
want to go thru the hassles of selling to upgrade.




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Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-Sysop FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)