Re: Apple computers - Did they really reduce the prices?

[One Who Waits <georgewkspam@humboldt1.com>]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906111243530.21497@darkstar.example.net>,
 Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, The Wizard of Oz wrote:
> 
> > Neil Jones wrote:
> >> Few days ago I saw news item claiming that Apple is reducing prices of
> >> their computers across the board.  When I tried to go to their website,
> >>  I got a message saying that they are updating their store information
> >> and asked to return back.  Today, I go to the site and did not see any
> >> difference in the prices at all.  All they did is present the cheaper
> >> models (polycarbonate shell) first and then take you to the expensive
> >> models (aluminum shell).
> >> 
> >> I have been watching the prices for a few months (planning to buy one
> >> for my kid), but the prices have not changed at all.  It looks like an
> >> Apple gimmick here.
> >> 
> >> NJ
> >
> > 	Considering the Apple// (Apple2 - like the name of the news group) 
> > line was killed off around the early 90's I'd say yeah there is a drastic 
> > reduction in prices. The ][+ went from a $4600 computer (the first one I 
> > ever 
> > bought) to a $5 computer. It's still a good machine. It does what it does 
> > very well. Much more stable than modern PCs or Macs. I don't recall an 
> > Apple// in anything but a plastic or fibreglass shell.
> >
> I was going to say that I'm not sure whether the Apple was all that
> expensive or not.  After all, circa 1977, it was expensive, but so
> were the alternatives.  The alternatives weren't the all in one unit
> of the Apple II, so their price might be illusionary, since you had
> to buy quite a big of different items to get what was in the Apple.
> 
> And the Apple II was definitely a price drop from minicomputers, that
> people had to pay for and live with if they'd needed a computer, up
> to a few years before the Apple II hit.
> 
> So you definitely got a good deal for going with the Apple II in
> 1977.
> 
> And yes, they probably did drop in price over time.  They ramped up
> production, so the costs were shared over many more units.  The later
> models in the II line better integrated things, so they could cut costs
> and probably reduce the price.
> 
> Another way of looking at it is that the Apple II was cheap compared
> to what the company released later.  I can't recall how much the Apple
> III cost, but the Lisa was something like $10,000.  The original Macintosh
> was a drop in price, relatively speaking, but it had a single drive
> that only did one side of the floppy, and only 128K of RAM.  It cost
> a lot to make it really useable.
> 
> The trick to getting a good price is to buy used.  Let someone else
> pay the full price, and then get it after a patient wait of a few years.
> That's how I finally got an Apple II, and later an Apple IIGS.  Until
> I bought a "netbook" last fall, I hadn't bought a new computer since
> 1989.  The used market happily supplied what I needed.
> 
>     Michael

My first Mac. was a llGS.
fun , and I found someone to pay me more than I paid for it and I still 
have the printer stand.
Now, I have a New IMac and an old G-3 blu/white.
Love my Macs.
Enjoy!
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