gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (09/28/88)
If you consider what you get, the Mac II (under university discount)
costs about the same as a taiwanese 386 clone. You need to consider
that you're getting a top-notch color (=VGA) SONY monitor, 1Mb or RAM,
68881, 3.5 inch floppy, sound, mouse, etc. I think the initial price
for this product was very competitive, considering that for the same
money, the system software is superior to the IBM PC.
Now that the Mac II has gotten more expensive, it now costs about the
same as most of Apple's products: 25% more than a clone-maker would
charge.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,ihnp4,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliesdanm@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) (09/30/88)
In Portland, OR (a fairly large business market, but also pretty average), there does not seem to be a long wait for any of the Macintosh models, excepting the Plus. So my question is: Has Apple miscalculated the excess demand that allows them to raise their prices? A lot of the rhetoric supporting the price increase is based on the demand vs. supply model. Dan Milliron Tektronix