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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: A sad day...
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.221739.21956@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <46878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <DJ8gy2w163w@mimas.UUCP> <27dc15b6-a2e.5comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1991 22:17:39 GMT

In article <27dc15b6-a2e.5comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
akcs.gregc@vpnet.chi.il.us (*Greg*) writes:
>[Flame ON!]
>You'd have to buy a $6000.00 - $15,000
>dollar machine to do the same performance as PC hardware.  I can get a fast
>33MHz 386 that will intergrate software and hardware for $4000.00.  And this
>will blow the doors off comparable Macs.  With the newest Macs, 
>it's different.  They
>are fast enough.  But again, at what price.  And how much storage can you
>fit in em?  The choice is clear.

     When quoting hardware prices, you should try to be fair.  Sure, a Mac is
more expensive (usually) than a similarly equipped neighbourhood computer
store PC.  But how does a Mac compare to an equivalently equipped Compaq?
Last I looked, the answer was "very favorably".  (By the way, I'm not even
sure that your idea of Mac pricing is accurate, but then I'm not in the market
right now, so I couldn't say for sure.  Apple's pricing has improved
considerably in the last year, largely as a result of market pressure.)  The
point is that large companies have overhead that smaller companies don't.
Mac pricing is very competitive for a machine in that class made by a
company of Apple's size, especially when you consider that the windowing
interface and things like Hypercard come with the machine rather than having
to be bought separately.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
