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In article <749@fornax.UUCP>, mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
 	[ and I summarize: ]
> ...  Apple has NOT won the home and university markets ....
> ... Apple are giving them a pretty good price break ....

*THEM* being university administrations and departments - YES, true;
*THEM* meaning students?  NO - the university stores are getting machines
(to the best of my information) at prices comparable to large dealers;
but they are bound somehow to sell them making limited profit.

In case of UT, the Microcomputer Center profits still subsidize a Texas
Student Union organization which has historically and traditionally been
inept or badly run to the extend of losing money in just about everything.
(not the fault of the students, you understand; they don't make the
important decisions in running the Union)

If someone had started not-for-profit compananies, national, regional, or
local to sell Macs cheaply to students, prices could have been just as
low buying them at normal quantity prices from Apple.  my opinion, OPINION,
you understand?!

And, sure, Apple has not sold all the computers they could sell at a lower
price, but I assure you, a lot of BIMmers are very pale and worried these
days ... and have been for for quite a while.


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