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- From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: Powerbooks 100 at the Whole Earth Access???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.175248.8673@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 17:52:48 GMT
- References: <185f22INNjis@agate.berkeley.edu> <ZeVJqB3w165w@tosh.UUCP> <18ah8lINNfu3@agate.berkeley.edu> <lai168INNe59@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu>
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- Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <lai168INNe59@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
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- > why the hell did Apple have to cause this kind of a mess?
-
- > Apple sure has become a big business these days "without a
- > heart" - well, at least the sales and marketing critters;
-
- Come on, do you really expect big businesses to "have a heart"? I don't.
- I would be very happy for them to be profitable and sell us good computers
- at good prices.
-
- HEY APPLE! Have you guys been watching this PB100 sideshow? Obviously there's
- a big market out here for portable Macs in the $500 - $900 range. They don't
- have to be blazing fast, have tons of RAM, huge hard disks or state of the art
- screens. Lots of us would like a cheap portable to compliment our desktop
- machines at a price we can justify, and we're willing to accept some
- compromises.
-
- When Price Club started selling the PB100's there was an article in MacWeek
- that stated this was an "experiment" by Apple. I'd say the experiment was
- a success! So go ahead and be "heartless", but keep selling those $700 Macs
- at discount stores. Of course if Apple announced it was going to sell
- $500 PB100's some people would still be pissed off at Apple because they paid
- $700 for theirs, but you can't keep everybody happy....
-
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