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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (11708)	4/17/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

This is still expensive compared to the same face MHZ number of Wintels, say 300 P-II, even though the P-II bus is a mere 66. I believe that over the next couple months it's going to become pretty clear, as someone has already pointed out here, that this flight to sub $1,000 machines may well be short lived. I don't know that Apple needs to compete too vehemently in this market. Sure, get a fast machine down to around $1,000, but don't break your back trying to produce and market a 300Mhz machine that retails for $500. I can't be the only person out there willing to spend $2,500 to $3,000 for a quality, reliable computer that kicks silicon sand in the faces of my Wintel buddies and their pitiful Pentium playthings. All these $800 computers sitting around are going to drive home the fact that Apple's market niche is quality in a sea of computing mediocrity. Now if AAPL could only produce a machine that ran the Nintendo 64 OS. Mark