gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart ) (03/13/85)
RUMOR?
Apple gave a forced vacation to employees at their Mac plant. The idea
is to slow down production to avoid dropping the price. If this is true,
what ever happened to the idea of a computer for the rest of us?
I also heard that apple will introduce a Mac with 128K of ROM and
double sided 800K floppies. The new ROM is suppose to have all? of the
finder in it.
FACT!
I just got a 512K Mac bundle, currently selling at ~$2800,
for $2190. Apple does give hefty discounts for full time students
at state universities. My wife will gladly use it to type her thesis.
I still have to wait 4-6 weeks for delivery, BUT it is worth it!
(I think they should sell the package for ~$2300 anyway!)
PROBLEM
A question for the you hardware hackers! If apple goes to 128K rom
will I be able to upgrade my NEW fat mac?
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George Erhart
ATT-NS/Bell Labs
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PHONE: (614) 860-4021jsc@ucbvax.ARPA (James Carrington) (03/14/85)
> RUMOR? > > Apple gave a forced vacation to employees at their Mac plant. The idea > is to slow down production to avoid dropping the price. If this is true, > what ever happened to the idea of a computer for the rest of us? > > I also heard that apple will introduce a Mac with 128K of ROM and > double sided 800K floppies. The new ROM is suppose to have all? of the > finder in it. > They did indeed (or are going to) close the plant for one week. The stated goal was to lower the stockpile of Macs they have, since the demand for personal computers (not just Apple -- industry wide) is dropping pretty severely. -- James Steven Carrington The INGRES Project jsc@ucbingres.arpa ucbvax!jsc
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/15/85)
In article <905@cbdkc1.UUCP> gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart ) writes: >RUMOR? > >Apple gave a forced vacation to employees at their Mac plant. The idea >is to slow down production to avoid dropping the price. If this is true, >what ever happened to the idea of a computer for the rest of us? Actually, Apple gave a one week shutdown to ALL of their manufacturing operations, not just the Mac group. It isn't a matter of trying to keep the price up, it is a matter of trying to keep inventory down-- sales of all computers have slipped significantly and building more computers than you can sell means you end up borrowing money to build something you then have to pay storage and interest costs for-- this means that the unit cost goes up. Lowering the price only works if you can talk people into buying at the lower price, and if you have enough leeway in your costs to still make some money at the lower price, and if you can afford to keep the price at the new lower price permanently. Also, since Apple did some price reductions in january, it isn't usually a good marketing tactic to do more price reductions in March.... People will probably disagree with me, but I dont think the Mac is particularly overpriced-- there is a LOT of software development cost that needs to be paid off in there... >I also heard that apple will introduce a Mac with 128K of ROM and >double sided 800K floppies. The new ROM is suppose to have all? of the >finder in it. I've heard this too... I doubt that the new ROM's will have all of the finder, but the rest of the toolbox should end up in ROM somewhere and that should cut the size of the System file significantly. chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach, National Semiconductor {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Be seeing you!
bhyde@inmet.UUCP (03/19/85)
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