In economics , engineering , business management and marketing the price–performance ratio is often written as cost–performance , cost–benefit or capability/price ( C/P ), refers to a product's ability to deliver performance, of any sort, for its price. Generally speaking, products with a lower price/performance ratio are more desirable on demand curve , excluding other factors.
36-513: Mac Classic may refer to: Macintosh Classic , a model of Macintosh computer Classic Environment , a compatibility layer for Mac OS 9 included in Mac OS X Classic Mac OS , versions of Mac OS before Mac OS X Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mac Classic . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
72-640: A "fine, inexpensive replacement for the Macintosh Plus that best embodies the original Macintosh vision six and a half years later". Computer Gaming World was more skeptical, doubting that consumers would purchase a black-and-white computer with no hard drive that was only slightly faster than the Mac Plus. In the February 1991 edition of Electronic Learning , Robert McCarthy wrote: "Teachers, educational administrators, and software developers are enthusiastic about
108-472: A 55 percent profit margin. The high-right policy led to a series of machines with ever-increasing prices. The original Macintosh plans called for a system around $ 1,000, but by the time it had morphed from Jef Raskin 's original vision of an easy-to-use machine for composing text documents to Jobs's concept incorporating ideas gleaned during a trip to Xerox PARC , the Mac's list price had ballooned to $ 2,495. With
144-486: A number of smaller microcomputers handling the same load. As a result, many of the older computer companies were shut down and people were put out of work . However, most of them were able to be re-hired at the newer corporations after undergoing a series of re-training involving the newer technologies. In the business world, there is usually a value associated with a typical cost–performance ratio analysis. This value can either be positive, neutral, or negative depending on
180-524: A signature of Apple product design for much of the 1990s. The logic board , the central circuit board of the computer, is based on the Macintosh SE design. Its size, however, was reduced using surface-mount technology to 9 × 5 inches (23 × 13 cm), half the size of the SE board. This redesign, and the absence of expansion slots, kept manufacturing costs low. This lack of expansion abilities, along with
216-699: A similar level of consumption at a minimum cost. According to futurist Raymond Kurzweil , products start out as highly ineffective and highly expensive. Gradually, products become more effective and cheaper until they are highly effective and almost free to buy. Some of the products that have followed this example include AIDS medications (which are now affordable compared to initial pricing ), text-to-speech programs, and digital cameras . However, products that rely primarily on paper (e.g., newspapers and toilet paper) and/or fossil fuels (e.g., electricity in most countries and petroleum gasoline for automobiles) have only increased in price. This directly contradicts
252-455: A very low-cost machine with a target price of $ 1,000, a low-cost machine with color graphics, and a more upscale color machine for small business use. In time, these would develop as the Classic, Macintosh LC , and Macintosh IIsi , respectively. MacWEEK magazine reported on July 10, 1990, that Apple had paid $ 1 million to Modular Computer Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG , for
288-435: Is improved, better, or increased, it actually refers to the performance divided by the price, in other words exactly the opposite ratio (i.e. an inverse ratio) to rank a product as having an increased price/performance. Due to the prolonged low growth and economic slump, the proportion of consumption to income will inevitably decrease. However, they cannot completely give up their consumption, so they have found ways to maintain
324-516: Is the final adaptation of Jerry Manock 's and Terry Oyama's Macintosh 128K industrial design, bringing back some elements of the original while retaining little of the Snow White design language used in the Macintosh SE 's design. The only remnant of the SE is the stripe across the front panel (bezel) for the floppy drive; the distinctive front bezel lines of the SE were not used on the Classic, and
360-565: Is to get as aggressive on price as we need to be." After the release of the Classic, Apple's share price closed at $ 27.75 per share, down $ 0.50 from October 12, 1990, and far below its previous 12-month high of $ 50.37 . The Classic was released in Europe and Japan concurrently with the United States release. In Japan, the Classic retailed for ¥ 198,000 ( $ 1,523 ), more than in the US but matching
396-696: The Macintosh Plus , which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer: it is up to 25 percent faster than the Plus, about as fast as the SE, and includes an Apple SuperDrive 3.5" floppy disk drive as standard. The SuperDrive can read and write to Macintosh, MS-DOS , OS/2 , and ProDOS disks. The Classic also has an memory expansion slot(up to 4 MB). The Classic uses the System 6 .0.7 operating system with support for all versions up to System 7 .5.5. A hidden Hierarchical File System (HFS) disk volume contained in
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#1732890918321432-518: The read-only memory (ROM) includes System 6.0.3. The Mac Classic can be booted into System 6.0.3 by holding down the ⌘ Command + ⌥ Option + X + O keys during boot. Some dealers included a software bundle called Smartbundle with the Classic. Also sold separately for $ 349, this includes T/Maker 's WriteNow word processor, Ashton-Tate 's Full Impact spreadsheet program, RecordHolderPlus database, and Silicon Beach Software 's SuperPaint 2.0 paint and draw program. The Macintosh Classic
468-447: The "low-left" of the market it had abandoned years earlier booming with Turbo XTs , and being ignored on the high end for UNIX workstations from the likes of Sun Microsystems and SGI , Apple's fortunes of the 1980s quickly reversed. The Christmas season of 1989 drove this point home, with the first decrease in sales in years, and an accompanying 20 percent drop in Apple's stock price for
504-572: The Apples will have a superior comfort level." Sue Talley, Apple's manager of strategic planning in education, said of the Classic: "we see it going into applications where you need a fair number of powerful stations, but where color is not a big issue." Talley mentioned that it was most suited for writing labs and other basic productivity uses. Many schools decided not to buy the Macintosh Classic because of
540-550: The Classic at a press conference, announcing that pricing would start at $ 1,000 and saying, "To reach new customers, we didn't just lower the prices of our existing products. We redesigned these computers from the ground up with the features customers have told us they value most." Apple's new pricing strategy caused concern among investors, who thought it would reduce profit margins . Brodie Keast, an Apple product marketing manager, said, "We are prepared to do whatever it takes to reach more people with Macintosh [...] The plan
576-496: The Classic's ease of use and price, but criticized the 9-inch (230 mm) display because a full US letter page (8.5 by 11 inches; 220 mm × 280 mm) would not fit at full size, and warned those who required high-end graphics and desktop publishing capabilities against buying the Classic. Schafer concluded: "The Classic's value is more impressive than its performance, but its performance will get you working on that novel, database, or spreadsheet." PC Week criticized
612-508: The Macintosh would become "the school machine of the nineties." The Classic was sold to schools for $ 800 . This, and the availability of educational software, led to the Classic's popularity in the education sector. The low-end model was sold with 1 MB of memory, a 1.44 MB floppy drive, no hard disk , and included a keyboard for $ 999. The $ 1,500 model had 2 MB of memory and a 40 MB hard disk. The Classic features several improvements over
648-409: The amount of money spent versus the results achieved by the spending of the available capital . A cost-performance ratio with a positive value (i.e. greater than 1) indicates that costs are running under budget. A negative value (i.e. less than 1) indicates that costs are running over budget. However, a neutral cost-performance ratio (between 1.0 and 1.9) could suggest a certain degree of stagnation in
684-454: The budget. Business trips can also be factored into the cost–performance ratio because spending $ 50 to do a journey spanning 100 miles (160 km) in two hours is a better cost–performance ratio than spending $ 105 to do the journey in one hour. The term tends to be used quite a bit when comparing computer hardware. During the latter 1990s, the price–performance ratios of midrange and large mainframe systems fell tremendously in comparison to
720-409: The first non-expandable desktop Macintosh since the Macintosh Plus . Instead, it had a memory expansion slot. The Classic is an adaptation of Jerry Manock 's and Terry Oyama's 1984 Macintosh 128K industrial design, as had been the earlier Macintosh SE. Apple released two versions. The price and the availability of education software led to the Classic's popularity in education. It was sold alongside
756-449: The lack of a color monitor, an option that the higher-priced Macintosh LC had. The popular Apple IIe Card also increased the LC's appeal to schools. Although the Classic was more popular at first, by May 1992 the LC (560,000 sold) was outselling the Classic (1.2 million sold). Price-performance ratio Even though this term would seem to be a straightforward ratio, when price performance
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#1732890918321792-429: The lack of a faster processor, stating, "The 7.8 MHz speed is adequate for text applications and limited graphics work, but it is not suitable for power users. As such, the Classic is appropriate as a home computer or for limited computing on the road." Similarly, PC User ' s review concluded, "The slow processor and lack of expansion slots on the Macintosh Classic offset the low prices". MacWEEK described it as
828-510: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mac_Classic&oldid=741194620 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Macintosh Classic The Macintosh Classic is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from October 1990 to September 1992. It
864-451: The low end of the computer market, where profits were thin, but instead concentrate on the high end and higher profit margins. He illustrated the concept using a graph showing the price-performance ratio of computers with low-power, low-cost machines in the lower left and high-power high-cost machines in the upper right. The "high-right" goal became a mantra among the upper management, who said "fifty-five or die", referring to Gassée's goal of
900-489: The lower price, as planned. The Classic also featured several improvements over the aging Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer. It is up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive 3.5-inch (9 cm) floppy disk drive as standard. Unlike the Macintosh SE/30 and other compact Macs before it, the Classic did not have an internal Processor Direct Slot , making it
936-458: The more powerful Macintosh Classic II in 1991 until its discontinuation the next year. After Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, product development was handed to Jean-Louis Gassée , formerly the manager of Apple France. Gassée consistently pushed the Apple product line in two directions, towards more "openness" in terms of expandability and interoperability, and towards higher price. Gassée long argued that Apple should not aim for
972-516: The new, lower-cost Apple Macintosh computers". Steve Taffe, manager of instructional strategy at MECC , a developer and publisher of educational software, explained his excitement about the Classic: "[it] is terrific – both because it's a Mac and because of that low price. Everyone can now afford a Macintosh." Scholastic, an educational software developer, was also confident of Apple's ability to compete with MS-DOS machines, stating: "They are just as cost-effective and as powerful as MS-DOS computers, but
1008-417: The older Macintosh computers. Apple's decision to not update the Classic with newer technology such as a newer CPU, higher RAM capacity or color display resulted in criticism from reviewers, with Macworld describing it as having "nothing to gloat about beyond its low price" and "unexceptional". However, it ensured compatibility with the Mac's by-then healthy software base, as well as enabled it to sell for
1044-782: The price of the Toshiba Dynabook laptop computer. After spending $ 40 million marketing the Classic to first-time buyers, Apple had difficulty meeting the high demand. Apple doubled its manufacturing space in 1990 by expanding its Singapore and Cork, Ireland factories, where the Classic was assembled. Air freight, rather than sea shipping, was used to speed delivery. The shortage caused concern among dealers, who blamed Apple's poor business planning. Macintosh Classics and LCs had been given to Scholastic Software 12 weeks before they were officially announced, and Scholastic planned to release 16 new Macintosh products in 1991. Peter Kelman, Scholastic's publisher, predicted that
1080-403: The quarter. In January 1990, Gassée resigned and his authority over product development was divided among several successors. Many Apple engineers had long been pressing for lower-cost options in order to build market share and increase demand across the entire price spectrum. With Gassée out, a rush started to quickly introduce a series of low-cost machines. Three market points were identified:
1116-402: The rich people have earlier access to highly inefficient technologies, medical treatments, and therapies (that are prototypical in nature) while the poor get access to these same products when they become more efficient and easier to manufacture several years down the road. During the latter 1990s, the cost–performance ratios of the larger mainframe systems fell tremendously in comparison to
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1152-411: The right to use the "Classic" name as part of a five-year contract. Apple did not renew the contract when it ended. MacWEEK speculated the Macintosh Classic would use the same 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor and 9-inch (23 cm) display as its predecessors and that the Classic would be priced from $ 1,500 to 2,150 . On October 15, 1990, John Sculley (then Apple CEO ) introduced
1188-581: The small screen size and Macintosh's popularity in desktop publishing , led to such oddities as video displays that connected through the SCSI port by users seeking to connect a larger full- or dual-page display to their Mac. The Classic design was used once more in 1991 for the Classic II , which succeeded the Classic. Some reviewers of the Macintosh Classic focused on the processor performance and lack of expansion slots. Liza Schafer of Home Office Computing praised
1224-488: The trend of electronic gadgets like netbooks , desktop computers , and laptop computers that also have been decreasing in price. However, the prevailing inflation rate of a country or province/state may negate the plummeting costs of software, AIDS medications, and/or digital cameras in certain regions along with certain governmental policies. This has the effect of keeping costs high in certain areas while they are dramatically reduced in others. In theory, this means that
1260-463: The vertical lines around its base are replaced by four horizontal vent lines, more reminiscent of the original design. Also, the curve of the front bezel was increased to the same 50-inch (1.3 m) radial curve as on the front of both the Macintosh LC and Macintosh IIsi . The screen brightness dial on this bezel was also removed in favor of a software control. This broad, curved front bezel became
1296-441: Was the first Macintosh to sell for less than US$ 1,000. Production of the Classic was prompted by the success of the original Macintosh 128K , then the Macintosh Plus , and finally the Macintosh SE . The system specifications of the Classic are very similar to those of its predecessors, with the same 9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512 × 342 pixel resolution, and 4 megabyte (MB) memory limit of
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