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I intend to buy a Macintosh, but I don't want to spend too much money on it.
(I have everything in my office, although no Macintosh :-( )
The SE seems to be the most popular Macintosh nowadays and I am afraid that
I might somehow "miss the boat" when I buy a Plus.  For me, here in
Holland, the difference in price is about $2000 and this seems not to be
justified by only an internal hard-disk and a slot.  Or am I wrong?
The university price I have to pay is $1200 for a Mac+ and $3200 for a Mac SE
with 2 MB RAM and 20 MB hard disk.  

I have several questions:

1.  What does the SE offer more than the Plus?  (objectively)

2.  What do I give up when I don't buy an SE? 
    Is Apple going to "forget" the Plus like a step-child?

3.  Are there or will there be important applications that I can't run on a
    Plus?

4.  Is there something wrong with the following way of reasoning?
    Since I don't want to spend much money on it, I probably won't buy
    expensive extensions (cards, expensive software, CD-ROM players,
    etc.) within several years.  And what happens with the prices in
    three years?  After three years I might get more than the
    equivalent of a current SE for the same amount as the difference in
    the price between a Mac Plus and an SE now.  So there is no use in
    spending several thousands of dollars for extendaBILITY that I won't
    use soon.

Thanks in advance for your reply.
Kees
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