gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/25/84)
Maybe I'm showing my ignorance, but I thought the Mac didn't have parity. This makes it $30 x 16 chips, not 18 chips. Not a big diff. Considering the volumes they're buying in (hopefully they are not paying $30/chip like the rest of us), Apple might not LOSE money on the deal but they sure aren't going to make much. And if you think issues of upgrades and dropped prices and old versus new customers and dealers are easy to deal with, read: Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of Osborne Computer Corporation by: Adam Osborne and John Dvorak (Berkeley: Idthekkathan Publishing Co. He had to print it himself because it's so revealing that major publishers would not print it for fear of legal action.) ISBN 0-918347-00-9. Costs about $30 and worth it, if you are in a growth company, invested in one, or thinking about it.
MKrigel.es@XEROX.ARPA (10/03/84)
You guys have it all wrong. 256K chips are on the market place for between <$25 to <$30. Apple is OBVIOUSLY paying paying on hte low end. Perhaps as low as $20. 16 X $20 is $320. the dealers KEEP $200 minimum on hte deal. That makes the NO PROFEt TFrom Apple to (at least) $520. Add to this the actual cost of assembly, the new motherboard, other components ont he new motherboard and the software (Mac Draw and Mac Project) given to pre-September purchaser's of Mac and the price (though very high) is ablut right. Will the price come down? Sure, but so what; that's called economics of scale. Can we get onto some other topic now. I'm more interested in seeing some comments as to software and usefulness of the Mac. Marc MKrigel.es@Xerox.arpa