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From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards for Macs
Message-ID: <4247@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 89 18:24:32 GMT
References: <26811@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1321@intercon.UUCP>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson)
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <1321@intercon.UUCP> Kurt Baumann <kdb@intercon.uu.net> writes:
>Anyone know just what the lowest price you can find for a Mac Ethernet card
>is these days?  What do you University folk pay for cards in quantity?

According to the July MacWorld, list prices are $699 (Apple), $695 (Kinetics),
$595 (3Com), and $549 (Everex, Dove, and Interlan).  Emory University's
Computer Sales has the Apple board for $470 and the Everex board for $346.
MacConnection has the Dove board for $450.

Now, two questions:

1)  Any reason to prefer one of these boards over the other?  I'm primarily
    interested in performance issues, but the recent bad Everex support
    experiences are also relevant.

2)  Does the Apple board come with MacTCP?  This would make the Apple board
    much more competitive, as the latter would not then have to be purchased
    from APDA.

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