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- From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
- Followup-To: alt.religion.computers
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 00:37:22 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- joy@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Chien-Chung Chen) writes:
-
- >In article <1gpep7INNm4c@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:
- >>Sadly,
- > ^^^^^
- >>the resale of Macs is becoming worse because of the drastic price cutting by
- >>Apple... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > ^^^^^
-
- >I really don't understand why you should be sad. Why do you want Mac's
- >resale price to be high? Because you want to sell your old Mac to get a
- >new Mac, right? But you complain about Apple's cutting the price?
- >Oh, I see. You don't want to buy a new Mac. You want to sell your old
- >Mac and get a PC. :)
-
- Because unfortunately I work at a university and because we are not the
- capitalistic swine that some other universities are, we do not demand that
- every student coming to the university buy a computer (which will be worth
- 40% of the purchase value after 1 year) and we provide labs of computers
- for the students to come and use.
-
- Many of the students who come and use our lab only use the computers for
- 2-3 hours a week and would never even contemplate a computer for the home.
- The average computer will set you back $2000 after CPU, printer etc and
- will be worth $0 in 5 years. at 150 hours per year that comes to about 750
- hours of use for some of our less enthusiastic students which means that
- their wonderful 486 bought now has cost them $2 an hour to use when they
- can come into the University lab and spend nothing in our lab, or $1 a day
- in the Maths lab.
-
- Now because of this, it is the responsibility of the University to provide
- computers on desks for students who NEED to use them to do coursework.
- Unfortunately every year we buy computers and at the end of the year when
- we come to sell them, they aren't worth anything. So within 5 years, we
- may well require every student to buy a computer. Now how would you feel
- if your university demanded you buy a computer of certain specifications
- before you enrolled? It would certainly add about A$3000 to the cost of
- attending our University.
-
- Me personally? I own a macintosh SE/30 and I will be selling it before the
- end of next year and the impending release of the PowerPC. I don't even
- know if I will bother buying a new computer because I don't use it anyway.
- I use the ones at work. (Which are devaluing horribly and hard to replace
- without adding large sums of money)
-
- Have I made my point?
-
- Craig
- --
- Craig Richmond. Computer Officer - Dept of Economics (morning) 380 3860
- University of Western Australia Dept of Education (afternoon)
- craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au Dvorak Keyboards RULE! "Messes are only acceptable
- if users make them. Applications aren't allowed this freedom" I.M.VI 2-4
-