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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing
- Message-ID: <14796@claris.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:42:10 GMT
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- In article <gH7ZNB7w165w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- >
- > 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 July 15th Apple suggested retail price list has two models of the 100
- listed--with a caveat for the dealers that it is only while supplies last,
- and that the products are not eligible for stock balancing. This means that
- Apple is discontinuing the PB 100 so far as traditional authorized Apple
- dealers are concerned. Whether Apple continues to make and sell the PB 100
- for sale by the Price Club and similar outlets is another question--and I
- don't have an answer to that question.
-
- > 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.
-
- The 68030 has a 32-bit data path, wereas the 68000 has a 16-bit path; that
- makes the 68030 approximately twice as fast as the 68000 for RAM access.
- If you use a RAM-intensive application, you'll see the difference.
-