chrisp@hubcap.clemson.edu (Dr. Chris Peters) (05/08/90)
Mac SE with 20M HD, 800K floppy, 1M RAM $1800 or best offer Dr. Chris Peters e-mail: chrisp@hubcap.clemson.edu applelink: D5001 phone: (803) 656-3482
gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) (01/13/91)
jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) wrote about the street prices of old MACS: >(pretty sad, huh?)... No, its not sad. Think of it as evolution in action. Everyone was complaining that MAC prices were too high. Finaly Apple did something about it. What kept the prices of MAC's high was that: 1. Apple was the only source. 2. Apple had you hooked on a MAC. There are many other computers on the market, but the people who bought MACs wanted the particular combination that the MAC offered. Apple came to the realization that the people who wanted MACs and were willing to pay two to three times the price of an IBM clone for equivalent processing capability, would no longer make the MAC a "growth" industry. With WINDOWS 3.0, to the computer neophyte, an IBM is equivalent to a MAC II. The P.S. I, with color monitor and a hard disk are a very attractive combination especially if your sum total computer experience is gleaned at the computer department of Sears. So Apple, in order to grow, had to lower their prices. The resultant loss in value of used MACs naturaly came along. Now if only SAAB or Dalmier (Mercedes Benz) would follow Apple's lead. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Geoffrey S. Mendelson | Computer Software Consulting | Dr. | | (215) 242-8712 | IBM Mainframes, Unix, PCs, Macs | Who | | uunet!gsm001!gsm | | Fan too!|