howard@alpha.la.locus.com (Howard Moskovitz) (06/13/90)
I am in the market to upgrade my SE to an SE/30. I am currently shopping around for the best price I can find for this upgrade. Please post the best price you may have found for the upgrade with the following info: 1) Price WITH FDHD 2) Price without FDHD 3) Is there a rebate associated with trade in of the SE motherboard? Thanks in advance. Howard Moskovitz @ Locus Computing
boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin) (06/13/90)
howard@alpha.la.locus.com (Howard Moskovitz) writes: >I am in the market to upgrade my SE to an SE/30. I am currently shopping >around for the best price I can find for this upgrade. Please post the >best price you may have found for the upgrade with the following info: > 1) Price WITH FDHD > 2) Price without FDHD > 3) Is there a rebate associated with trade in of the > SE motherboard? >Thanks in advance. >Howard Moskovitz @ Locus Computing Shreve Systems (800/227-3971) of Shreveport, La., advertised a $1,050 or thereabouts price, I think not including the FDHD.
barnette@banyan.UUCP (Steve Barnette) (06/14/90)
In article <10657@oolong.la.locus.com> howard@alpha.la.locus.com (Howard Moskovitz) writes: > >I am in the market to upgrade my SE to an SE/30. I am currently shopping >around for the best price I can find for this upgrade. Please post the >best price you may have found for the upgrade with the following info: > > 1) Price WITH FDHD > > 2) Price without FDHD > > 3) Is there a rebate associated with trade in of the > SE motherboard? I'm interested in this also. I hear the actual price list from Apple has the motherboard rebate printed right on it. Try to get a store to admit to it is impossible. I keep getting quotes around $1600 and up. I heard that if you turn in the motherboard its about half that price $800. I know it's a pretty extensive upgrade, a lot of parts are swapped, But $1600 is a lot of money. In Fact one store told me I could sell my SE used and buy a SE/30 cheaper with discounts than the upgrade would cost. What has the rest of you heard? Steve Barnette Banyan Systems
jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) (06/15/90)
In article <898@banyan.UUCP> barnette@banyan.UUCP (Steve Barnette) writes: [stuff deleted...] >But $1600 is a lot of money. In Fact one store told me I could sell >my SE used and buy a SE/30 cheaper with discounts than the upgrade >would cost. > >What has the rest of you heard? In working closely with some Apple Reps here at SU, the preceeding statement was the truth. I would pay near $1800 for an SE -> SE/30 upgrade, yet if I sold my SE and bought an SE/30 new, it would cost me about $66 (ie the difference between the amount I could get for my SE and the cost of a comparable SE/30) Apple, I don't get it. The upgrade policy doesn't seem to work with hardware at all does it? I love my Mac, but those numbers make no sense whatsoever. IMHO...one man's...Ace-- | Ace Stewart (Jonathan III) |A /\ | | Affiliation: Eastman Kodak Company. Rochester New York | _/ \_ | | Internet/ARPA: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu | \_ _/ | | Bitnet: jstewart@sunrise.bitnet | /\ A|
jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) (06/15/90)
In article <3741@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) writes: >upgrade, yet if I sold my SE and bought an SE/30 new, it would cost >me about $66 (ie the difference between the amount I could get for >my SE and the cost of a comparable SE/30) In my own article, that should have been $600. My apologies to all, and please don't flame me too much. :-) Sorry for the confusion...Ace -- | Ace Stewart (Jonathan III) |A /\ | | Affiliation: Eastman Kodak Company. Rochester New York | _/ \_ | | Internet/ARPA: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu | \_ _/ | | Bitnet: jstewart@sunrise.bitnet | /\ A|
philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (06/15/90)
In article <898@banyan.UUCP>, barnette@banyan.UUCP (Steve Barnette) writes: > In article <10657@oolong.la.locus.com> howard@alpha.la.locus.com (Howard Moskovitz) writes: > > > >I am in the market to upgrade my SE to an SE/30. I am currently shopping > >around for the best price I can find for this upgrade. Please post the > >best price you may have found for the upgrade with the following info: > > > > 1) Price WITH FDHD > > > > 2) Price without FDHD > > > > 3) Is there a rebate associated with trade in of the > > SE motherboard? > > I'm interested in this also. I hear the actual price list from Apple > has the motherboard rebate printed right on it. Try to get a store > to admit to it is impossible. I keep getting quotes around $1600 and > up. I heard that if you turn in the motherboard its about half that > price $800. > > I know it's a pretty extensive upgrade, a lot of parts are swapped, > But $1600 is a lot of money. In Fact one store told me I could sell > my SE used and buy a SE/30 cheaper with discounts than the upgrade > would cost. > > What has the rest of you heard? There's a special deal on at Stanford now, where you can trade your old Mac in if buying a faster one. The trade-in values of SEs and Pluses are close to the price of a new one*. Not surprisingly, the Bookstore appears to have been swamped (the wait time for delivery has gone up from 1 week to 4). Since this seems to have worked well, maybe Apple will do the same at other universities. In general: selling and replacing seems to be a better strategy than upgrading - you get a whole new machine with 1 year warrantee, and it could cost you less if your old machine is in good condition/not obsolete. ----- * at university pricing, of course Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
vnend@idunno.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) (06/15/90)
In article <3741@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) writes: )In article <898@banyan.UUCP> barnette@banyan.UUCP (Steve Barnette) writes: )[stuff deleted...] )>But $1600 is a lot of money. In Fact one store told me I could sell )>my SE used and buy a SE/30 cheaper with discounts than the upgrade )>would cost. )In working closely with some Apple Reps here at SU, the preceeding )statement was the truth. I would pay near $1800 for an SE -> SE/30 )upgrade, yet if I sold my SE and bought an SE/30 new, it would cost )me about $66 (ie the difference between the amount I could get for )my SE and the cost of a comparable SE/30) Prices that I've seen (university pricing) work out like this: New SE w/ 20 meg hd ~1060 New SE/30 w 40 meg hd ~1950 Upgrade SE -> SE/30 ~1900 Rebate for old board 750 Total upgrade cost ~1150 So the path isn't as rediculous as it first appears, as long as the people doing your upgrade aren't keeping that old MB for themselves. You still end up paying an extra 250 or so, but if you don't have two grand in the first place, it isn't too bad. (All prices are approximate AUC pricing, not including local markup and taxes.) )Apple, I don't get it. The upgrade policy doesn't seem to work with )hardware at all does it? I love my Mac, but those numbers make no )sense whatsoever. The one that doesn't make any sense is the 512 & 128 to plus upgrades. Rock bottom, no mark up, no taxes, you get all the refunds for old roms and drives etc returned to apple gets you an upgrade to a whole plus for about 475. Figure 600 for a more reasonable price. But the AUC price for a *new* Plus is $649. That's about 750 after markup and tax. Anyone who buy's apples upgrade is an idiot (and, yes, there are some of us that could use a mear plus.) -- Later Y'all, Vnend Ignorance is the mother of adventure. Mail? Send to:vnend@idunno.princeton.edu or vnend@pucc.bitnet Anonymous posting service (NO FLAMES!) at vnend@ms.uky.edu "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" - Sherlock Holmes
jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) (06/15/90)
In article <904@idunno.Princeton.EDU> vnend@idunno.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes: > Prices that I've seen (university pricing) work out like this: > >New SE w/ 20 meg hd ~1060 >New SE/30 w 40 meg hd ~1950 >Upgrade SE -> SE/30 ~1900 >Rebate for old board 750 >Total upgrade cost ~1150 > >So the path isn't as rediculous as it first appears, as long as the >people doing your upgrade aren't keeping that old MB for themselves. >You still end up paying an extra 250 or so, but if you don't have >two grand in the first place, it isn't too bad. The prices I was working with are not even comparable. If the cost has gone down to this, then most of my arguments quiet down. I still beleive that much of it doesn't make sense, but it appears for the SE/30 upgrade it is getting better. > The one that doesn't make any sense is the 512 & 128 to plus >upgrades. Rock bottom, no mark up, no taxes, you get all the refunds >for old roms and drives etc returned to apple gets you an upgrade to >a whole plus for about 475. Figure 600 for a more reasonable price. >But the AUC price for a *new* Plus is $649. That's about 750 after >markup and tax. Anyone who buy's apples upgrade is an idiot (and, yes, >there are some of us that could use a mear plus.) I didn't realize that, but if the SE/30 situation is being corrected, perhaps soon this situation will be. And Brooklyn is for sale if anyone is interested. :-) == To follow up on the Stanfored deal, are their Apple people that may make mention of the possibility that this offer will move out to other Universities? I like the idea of trading an SE in.. Ace -- | Ace Stewart (Jonathan III) |A /\ | | Affiliation: Eastman Kodak Company. Rochester New York | _/ \_ | | Internet/ARPA: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu | \_ _/ | | Bitnet: jstewart@sunrise.bitnet | /\ A|