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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 08:40:12 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <151226@cup.portal.com>
- References: <rdingem.4mq2@grafix.xs4all.nl> <151149@cup.portal.com>
- <19960326.7B43860.3C27@asd03-06.dial.xs4all.nl>
- <hrlaserDovv52.M71@netcom.com> <1996Mar26.150319.53609@cobra.uni.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: news1.unix.portal.com
-
- >In article <hrlaserDovv52.M71@netcom.com>, hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser) wri
- t
- >es:
- >> Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) wrote:
- >> : In article <151149@cup.portal.com> Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake
- )
- > writes:
- >> : > >In a message of 18 Mar 96 Marc N. Barrett wrote to All:
- >>
- >> : > >MNB> PowerMac 6100s are readily available for less than
- >> : > >MNB> $1000.
- >> : > >
- >> : > >Oh yes, right. Double that price for "somewhere in Europe" if
- >> : > >you want keyboard & monitor.
- >> : >
- >> : > Correct ... his Power Mac is JUST $2499.99 at Best Buy in Houston, Texas
- !
- >>
- >> : Leaving only two possibilities to be considered:
- >>
- >> : 1. Marc was lying, or
- >> : 2. Marc stole his Mac
- >>
- >>
- >> : Meg, sometimes I wonder how you do it!
- >>
- >> : --
- >> : ==========================================================================
- =
- >=
- >> : # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas.
- >#
- >> : #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... -
- -
- >#
- >> : #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that?
- >#
- >>
- >> Okay.. here's the latest Mac Warehouse catalog. Page 2. Full page
- >> ad for PowerMac 6100/66.
- >>
- >> The text:
- >> Power Macintosh 6100/66 features:
- >> - 66mhz Power PC
- >> - 8 MB RAM
- >> - 500 MB hard drive
- >> - Built-in CD-ROM drive
- >> - eight built-in ports
- >> - 16 bit stereo sound in/out
- >> - system 7.5
- >> - on-board ethernet.
- >>
- >> Base price for this machine: $1099.00
- >> fine print: "monitor and keyboard sold separately"
- >>
- >> Below that:
- >> Apple Extended Keyboard II - $169.95
- >> Apple Multiscan 1705 Color Display 17" - $799.00
- >>
- >> Okay, we don't need an $800 monitor, let's flip to page 29 and see
- >> what else they have:
- >>
- >> 15" Apple monitor - $479
- >> 14" Apple monitor - $399
- >>
- >> Ms. Cashier: ring me up
- >> 1 computer $1099.00
- >> 1 keyboard 169.95
- >> 1 15" tube 479.00
- >> -------
- >> $1747.95
- >>
- >> Perhaps, as Marc says "PowerMac 6100s are readily available for
- >> less than $1000."
- >>
- >> Of course, he doesn't say where, or whether those are new or
- >> used. Student discount at a university store? Fine for students.
- >> Not fine for regular buyers. Then factor in tax and shipping
- >> from the mail order place. So the bottom line for this system
- >> is over $1800.00, assuming you buy it (a) new, (b) from
- >> Mac Warehouse, (c) have it shipped to you.
- >
- >The latest Advertisement from J&R Computing World - an authorized Apple
- >reseller lists the 7200/75 for $999..
- >
- >PowerMacintosh 7200/75 features:
- >
- >-8 mb ram
- >-Apple SuperDrive 1.4MB floppy disk drive
- >-Graphics support up to 1,280 x 1,024 pixels
- >-Built in floating point processor with 32k cache
- >-500MB hard disk drive
- >-Quad-speed internal CD-Rom drive
- >-16 bit stereo audio I/O
- >-3 PCI slots
- >-10 Base-T and AAUI Ethernet connectors
- >
- >Base price for this machine: $999
- >
- >
- >
- >>
- >> Harv | "Do you recognize the
- >> harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- >> http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- >> hlaser@eworld.com <--- (until 3/31/96) | - Leon Russell
- >>
- >
- > GREETINGS..
- >|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |
- >| Peter Sinclair-Day POWER MACINTOSH 7100/80
- |
- >| University of Northern Iowa
- |
- >| Graduate School of Library Science
- |
- >| Rod Library - Systems & Technology
- |
- >| 1996 book of the year: Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot - Al Franken
- |
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- |
- >| Http://www.rockgarden.com/andy/
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-
- Now add monitor and KEYBOARD? :)
-
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