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From: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola)
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Subject: The SE as the low cost Mac, why not?
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Date: 7 Feb 90 05:45:50 GMT
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Did somebody already post a reason why the SE can not be used as the low
cost, entry level Mac, and I missed it? :-)

Let's see what the SE has going for it:

- It works
- The assembly line is already set up for it.
- The manuals are ready.
- The investment in development has probably already been paid off.
- No further design is needed.
- It comes with a monitor.

This sounds good to me!

How can Apple justify spending money to develop a machine that will be basically
identically to the SE (or Plus).  What can they leave out, the expansion bus?
the disk drive? the mouse?  the memory slots? :-)

Come on let's get real. 

BTW, the Plus can be bought through University discount by less than $1000.00,
since I don't think that Apple sells the machines at a loss and given the
fact that the SE is cheaper to manufacture than the Plus, there is no reason
why the SE couldn't be sold under $1000.00.  (I said this even though I own an
SE and it's resale value would go down).
--
pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu - Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF
		IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO READ SIGNATURES ...
	I am graduating Spring 1990 and I am looking for a job.  
	MS EE, my graduate work incorporates OO-DBMS/Graphics/Robotics/AI