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- From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: a non-techie view of Newton
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.141105.6277@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 14:11:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.135655.29078@fwi.uva.nl> <4603@news.duke.edu> <nb!nsy=.derek@netcom.com> <1992Aug19.074200.7132@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Network News)
- Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
- Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <1992Aug19.074200.7132@leland.Stanford.EDU> stchang@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steven Kuk-Jin Chang) writes:
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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
-
- Huh? I thought the PB145 WAS one of the new models? Do you mean the PB140?
- That is currently selling for a lot more than $1000 around here.
-
- >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.
-
- That is just not true in the case of the PB100. The 4/80 configuration which
- Price Club is (was?) selling for $900 was going for about $1400 on the
- educational price here, with the 2/40 going for about $1000.
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