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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew
- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing
- Message-ID: <gH7ZNB7w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 12:44:51 BST
- References: <lkingsley-150792125950@lkingsley.crd.ge.com>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- lkingsley@crd.ge.com (Lorne J. Kingsley) writes:
- > I would be very impressed if a PowerBook 100 so configured would sell for
- > "as low as $900." But then again, in the same article, they implied (?)
- > that the model 100 was toast, so this would just be Apple's way of getting
- > rid of old inventory.
-
- I would be somewhat surprised if Apple junked the 100 so soon after launching
- it. I'd be less surprised if they junked the 140; at the weekend I saw a
- place in London that was trying to get rid of their 140s by selling them at
- 100 prices... It seems that everyone either wants a minimal cost, minimal
- size, minimal weight machine -- in which case they get a 100 -- or something
- as powerful as possible -- in which case they get a 170.
-
- The 68030 in the 140 isn't much of a gain, because I wouldn't want to run
- virtual memory and have my hard disk spinning all the time. And apart from
- that and a slightly larger screen, the 140 doesn't really have anything over
- the 100... when I tried the two side by side, it wasn't really noticably
- faster.
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- mathew
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