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From: hsu@cs.purdue.EDU (William Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Enquiry about Mac
Keywords: Buying Mac
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Date: 30 Aug 89 20:59:42 GMT
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Title: I wanna buy a Mac
Keywords:  Low price alternative of setting up Mac system


Hi,
	I just found myself needing a computer.  Not able to spend too
much money, I would like to find out what is the cheapest way of owning
a Mac without sacrificing performance.

	I do need a Mac w/1MB onboard, expandable in future, 
40MB hard disk, and possibly a printer (for draft only).  I am 
considering the following combinations:

	1.   Mac SE
	2.   Mac plus, 512 Enhanced (available used, very cheap)
	adding accelerator board myself, and expanding the memory
	on the accelerator board to whatever quantity that is allowed.

	I would like to know what you, experienced Mac users think.  I am
more incline to (2), since it would be able to run faster than a
stock Mac SE.  My application would be mostly Word Processing, Spread Sheet
and possbibly some math, engineering package (Spice, Mathematica etc).

	Your e-mail response is preferred, but I would check on the
Net-news for the next few days for your responses too.  Thanks.


Kong Ng

kcng@ecn.purdue.edu

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William Hsu
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University (317) 494-7811.
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