brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (09/28/84)
I just can't believe the people who are complaining about this price. Unless I miss my guess, Apple is taking a LOSS selling those boards at that price. Is there something I am missing? Normally, hardware products cost at least 5 times their parts cost at the retail level. Even if Apple is paying only $20 per chip they are in bad shape. They have to replace the complete board, as I heard. Now if you want a real gouge, take the original Mac. That costs less than $200 in parts, and they sell it for $2500 in the USA. I guess they sold it for this high price to help pay for the cost of the upgrade. In other words, get the upgrade, you've already paid for it! -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) (09/29/84)
What is Apple going to do with the thousands of 128K boards they will be removing? Putting them in new cases and reselling them? Throwing them away? Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP) University of Waterloo (519) 885-1211 x3870
broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) (10/03/84)
Yes, exactly! Apple makes a substantial profit on each 128k Mac they
sell. They then start producing 512k Macs, and selling them to you for
$995 *plus* the trade-in on your old Mac. So they've sold you two Macs
for a total of almost $3500, and still have your old (128k) Mac to sell
again! They're in effect selling the same physical computer twice to
different people at $2500 a shot!
Pretty neat, from Apple's standpoint!
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-Bernie Roehl (University of Waterloo)
...decvax!watmath!wateng!broehljss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) (10/16/84)
995$ when the chips cost $265?? No way - I *just* priced the chips in reasonable quantities. Jon Shapiro Haverford College