Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utastro!werner From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: while we are talking about ridiculous AppleCare pricing: IIx Message-ID: <4202@utastro.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 05:12:51 GMT References: <125@cmdfs2.intel.com> <8400146@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <865@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 36 the local university store lists: MAC 128k $100 MAC 512k $115 MAC Pus $122 MAC SE $122 MAC SE HD 20 $285 (what? that 20meg HD is *THAT* bad?!?) MAC SE HD40/2 $299 (what a bargain ... :-( MAC SE/30 $270 (what is that? what's wrong with the 30 vs SE-plain?) MAC SE/30 HD40 $295 (ah, I understand, a ripoff! make those guys without a hard disk pay for the those that have a HD...) MAC SE/30 HD80 $390 (and what is that? the Quantum80 is more reliable and warranty should be cheaper!!) MAC II $199 (why the II should be more expensive than a 128 beats me...; a decent powersupply, no screen, no keyboard ..., even a fan to keep things from burning up ...) MAC II HD 40 $379 (that 40 must be a real dog!! or what gives?!) MAC II HD 40/4 $379 I'm trying to make sense of that .... MAC IIcx $279 hmmmm.... MAC IIx $469 RIPOFF, RIPOFF !!! I am utterly digusted with these prices, esepcially the IIx !!! if it is true that buying with the American Express Card gives you an automatic 1-year warranty, one should either do that or get the American Express card and go on a round-the-world trip *INSTEAD* of buying a Macingtosh computer .... somebody had to say it .... -- -----------> PREFERED RETURN-ADDRESS FOLLOWS <-------------- (ARPA) werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet: 128.83.144.1) (UUCP) ..!utastro!werner or ..!uunet!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner