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

[PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

On Jun 14, 11:51 pm, One Who Waits <georgewks...@humboldt1.com> wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906111243530.21...@darkstar.example.net>,
>  Michael Black <et...@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!
> --
> It's amazing what you can do. If...
>     you put your mind to it.

The IIGS isn't a mac.