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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!stchang
- From: stchang@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steven Kuk-Jin Chang)
- Subject: Re: a non-techie view of Newton
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.074200.7132@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Aug7.135655.29078@fwi.uva.nl> <4603@news.duke.edu> <nb!nsy=.derek@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 07:42:00 GMT
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- In article <nb!nsy=.derek@netcom.com> derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash) writes:
- >In article <4603@news.duke.edu> jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead) writes:
- >>
- >>I'm trying to decide whether to get a $900 PB100 -- if Newton will be
- >>competitive with this and will be out in the next six months I will
- >>wait for it, otherwise I'll go for the PB.
- >>
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- Apple no longer ships the powerbook 100 so if you want it youll have to buy
- it soon. However, if they keep the 145 after they intro the 4 new models
- then the price of the 145 will be cheap (around 1000 with stanford's academic
- price). IMO, keeping the 145 is likely because a) Mac Week said they would
- b) Apple doesnt think it will be able to meet demand on the new powerbooks.
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- A Note on academic pricing: In general, schools pay the same price to Apple
- that the superstores do. The reason that they are less expensive is that
- schools are limited on their markup. At Stanford, the markup is 5%.
- The penalty with academic dicounts is that service is poor, the salespersons
- are unknowledgable and rude. (I should know, I am one :)). Also, some campuses
- dont stock computers and order each one seperately... A often lengthy process.
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