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On the other hand, Mac hardware was super expensive. Today Mac hardware commands a little premium but pre OS 9 the difference in price was huge. So Mac owners c
by actionfromafar 2y ago
On the other hand, Mac hardware was super expensive. Today Mac hardware commands a little premium but pre OS 9 the difference in price was huge. So Mac owners could not have been very price sensitive in general.
- eschaton 2y agoA baseline Mac wasn’t any more expensive than the competition (IBM), it just wasn’t inexpensive like Commodore, Atari, and PC clones. Apple also had essentially the same price structure for decades, while PC clones raced to the bottom on both price and quality. And the Mac II was actually priced better than most competitive systems—because those competitive systems were 16MHz 68020/68881-based workstations from Apollo, HP, Tektronix, Sun, et al. In early 1987, a name-brand 16MHz 80386 system with 80387 was comparably priced, which is why most people buying PC clones didn’t get a 386 until 1990-91 or so, around when the 80486 (and 68040) came out.
- usrusr 2y ago"wasn’t any more expensive than the competition (IBM)" In other words: no more expensive than the other thing nobody ever bought? The success of the PC did not lie in IBM selling large numbers.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoIt fluctuated. During the first few years of the Mac era they were stupid expensive. In the later Scully & Amelio years they dropped in price a lot as the component prices in the 68k Macs became way cheaper, and they became fairly affordable esp if you could get an education (teacher or student) discount, which they were aggressive about. Still was not at all a common machine in people's homes.