[rbanffy]

> reasonably priced low-end Mac to sell to people or schools who would have gotten something in the Apple II series in the past.

Even with the heavy discounts Apple gave to the education market (brilliant strategy, BTW) the Apple IIs were not exactly competitively priced. So much, in fact, PC clones ate away the educational market with a product with a much higher perceived value (kids would learn to use the computers that were going into offices).