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The Lisa and the Mac were very expensive for their day--probably at the same level as this. The difference was that the Mac shipped with WYSIWYG editing softwa
by bsder 3y ago
The Lisa and the Mac were very expensive for their day--probably at the same level as this.
The difference was that the Mac shipped with WYSIWYG editing software (MacWrite and MacPaint) that was so obviously better than anything on the IBM that it was a no brainer. People wanted them very much, but most of us simply couldn't afford them.
In addition, desktop publishing was a stupidly obvious killer app on the Macintosh (Fat Mac plus LaserWriter plus Aldus Pagemaker) and you could make your money back within a couple of jobs given how much money you would save.
- p_l 3y agoI find $2495 of original Macintosh to be pretty cheap compared to $16k or more of other graphical workstations at the time.
- bsder 3y agoThat may be true, but my family only had my father working as a teacher. He got paid absolute crap for a very long time. Even a $400 computer was a huge stretch for them. It was possibly the absolute best purchase they ever made for me as it sent me down the tech path, but they thought VERY long and hard about it.
- p_l 3y agoYes. Computers in general went way down in price. Which is why Vision Pro's $3500 price tag is considered big today.