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From: jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall)
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Subject: Re: Mac upgrades on student price lists?
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Date: 26 Jul 89 17:03:07 GMT
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In article <2791@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>Although several people have posted their university's student price list
>to the net recently, I, of course, didn't pay attention since I didn't need
>the info.   :-(
>
>Does anyone have upgrades available on student price lists?  A colleague
>is interested in the SE -> SE/30 upgrade.
>
Hmm.  General advice: forget the upgrade.

The NCSU Bookstore charges $1400 for the upgrade, without the superdrive.
That's several $100 extra (I forget exactly).

If you SELL your SE for, say, $1500, and add the $1400 for the upgrade,
you're only about $1000 away from a baseline IIcx configuration, which is
in most ways superior to the SE/30.  You are a little less away from an
SE/30 w/ a hard disk.

I had been considering buying an accelerator or the upgrade card, an external
hard disk, and a portrait monitor for my SE.  But I started looking at the
price tag for the upgraded SE vs. a similar IIcx, and ... guess what ...
I'll even get 4-bit depth on my portrait display with the IIcx!  If the
logic board upgrade were more like $800-$1000, and the superdrive were a
little less expensive, I might look at it differently.  But ...