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Re: Mac prices

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From: Gary
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1987 02:06
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Prices in Canada...
> 
>            PC-clone:   $1650.
>            MAC SE:     $7970.
>            MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)

 Those prices are laughable!
 Either the customs people are jacking-up the price when they cross the
 border, or their is no decent discont Apple dealers up there!
Ouch!

Actually, I know that software going into Canada gets about 20% tacked onto
it.  I'll bet that the PC-clones are assembled in Canada and therefore
don't get taxed-up-the-ass.

A Mac + with a 20 Meg Dataframe is about $2500 (a while ago, it has
probably gone down since then) in the San Jose area of CA.

Gary
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