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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ..Apple won uni/home market... giving students price breaks...
Message-ID: <737@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 88 19:33:17 GMT
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Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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In-reply-to: werner@utastro.UUCP's message of 28 Sep 88 01:09:09 GMT

In article <3185@utastro.UUCP>, werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> In article <749@fornax.UUCP>, mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>  	[ and I summarize: ]
> > ...  Apple has NOT won the home and university markets ....
> > ... Apple are giving them a pretty good price break ....
> 
> *THEM* being university administrations and departments - YES, true;
> *THEM* meaning students?  NO - the university stores are getting machines
> (to the best of my information) at prices comparable to large dealers;
> but they are bound somehow to sell them making limited profit.

  To the best of my knowledge, Apple doesn't force schools to sell the
computers at a price above what the schools pay for them.  Some
schools are going to charge quite a bit above the cost, to help them
meet administrative costs.  Other schools (more often the small ones)
will charge the student only what Apple charges them, and just provide
this as a service to the students.
  I got my Mac through the university discount at the University of
Wisconsin -- River Falls campus, and the school charged absolutely
nothing over Apple's price.  To the best of my knowledge (I'm not
there any more), that's still what they do with all computer company
discounts (IBM, Zenith etc.--I believe they may not have Macs on a
regular basis due to problems at the Madison campus).
  Here (at Michigan State) on the other hand, there is a HUGE price
difference between what the school pays and what the student pays
(i.e. they can afford to offer $150 off during special sales).  So it
just depends on the school.

> If someone had started not-for-profit compananies, national, regional, or
> local to sell Macs cheaply to students, prices could have been just as
> low buying them at normal quantity prices from Apple.  my opinion, OPINION,
> you understand?!

  I agree that IF someone had done this, it would be cheap.  But
nobody did (where's the incentive?).  Oh well.

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