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In article <500@auscso.UUCP> mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>>
>>A Mac SE with 20Meg hard disk lists at $6150.  Of
>>course, they'll need a printer as well:  another $1045.  And they'll need
>>a printer cable: another $50.  After adding tax, the final results are:
>>
>>           PC-clone:   $1650.
>>           MAC SE:     $7970.
>>           MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)
>
>What currency are those prices in?  Singapore dollars? :-)  That's pretty 
>incredible.  Does Canada have some fantastic import duty on American comput-
>ers or something?  If it does, I can't see what good blaming Apple will do.

  It isn't all that bad.  At U of T, which sells only to UofT student/staff
the Mac+ alone goes for $2320.  The SE (2 floppys) $3200 and the imagewriter II
goes for $750.  Bad, but not insane.  As for tariffs, it
isn't all that bad.  But we do get a 11% Fed sales tax and 5-15% duty added on.

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