wsinkees@lso.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing) (11/24/89)
I intend to buy a Macintosh, but I don't want to spend too much money on it.
(I have everything in my office, although no Macintosh :-( )
The SE seems to be the most popular Macintosh nowadays and I am afraid that
I might somehow "miss the boat" when I buy a Plus. For me, here in
Holland, the difference in price is about $2000 and this seems not to be
justified by only an internal hard-disk and a slot. Or am I wrong?
The university price I have to pay is $1200 for a Mac+ and $3200 for a Mac SE
with 2 MB RAM and 20 MB hard disk.
I have several questions:
1. What does the SE offer more than the Plus? (objectively)
2. What do I give up when I don't buy an SE?
Is Apple going to "forget" the Plus like a step-child?
3. Are there or will there be important applications that I can't run on a
Plus?
4. Is there something wrong with the following way of reasoning?
Since I don't want to spend much money on it, I probably won't buy
expensive extensions (cards, expensive software, CD-ROM players,
etc.) within several years. And what happens with the prices in
three years? After three years I might get more than the
equivalent of a current SE for the same amount as the difference in
the price between a Mac Plus and an SE now. So there is no use in
spending several thousands of dollars for extendaBILITY that I won't
use soon.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Kees
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