Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!pasteur!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!a.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple's Excessive Profits and R&D Message-ID: <76000286@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 27 Sep 88 21:05:00 GMT References: <40318@linus.UUCP> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:linus.UUCP:40318:p.cs.uiuc.edu:76000286:000:730 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Sep 27 16:05:00 1988 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!gillies