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Article #15038Mac II vs Sun 3/52
From: jeff
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1987 13:29
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1987 13:29
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This is my first posting to the Net, so I hope this works. I recently obtained a copy of the Mac II pricing to schools in the Apple University Consortium. It seems to me that the Mac II is a very expensive machine. It has a lot of advantages, of course, with Mac compatibility, graphics and sound. But if what you want is a good Unix machine, then Sun seems to offer quit a lot more at a lower price. In quantities of 6, Univ. can buy Sun 3/52's at less than $8,000 apiece. That includes 4MB, 71Meg disk, 60Meg tape, the screen, ethernet, the works. A similar Mac II would evidently cost at least as much, more likely $10-12K. So is the MacII worth its price? That's not obvious to me. Jeffrey C. Kantor Department of Chemical Engineering University of Notre Dame uucp: ..!pur-ee!ndsun!jeffrey!jeff
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!jeff From: jeff@ndcheg.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mac II vs Sun 3/52 Message-ID: <101@ndcheg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 08:29:37 EST Article-I.D.: ndcheg.101 Posted: Fri Mar 13 08:29:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 09:39:53 EST References: <2302@cec2.UUCP> <345@gssc.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame Lines: 19 Keywords: Prices??