#performa 400

Rebadging its two low-end Macs and adding a new third model more formidable than the three-years-old IIci, then promising bundled software and sales outlets beyond the dealers that had handled their computers so far, Apple made a push towards “the 7 million or so” households that could “afford to buy a home computer but so far have stubbornly resisted the temptation,” as this issue put it. (In his regular back-page column, John C. Dvorak proclaimed the Performas going on sale at Sears “prove that the end is near” for the Macintosh platform, and suggested an assortment of strange names for the RISC-powered machines that would follow.)