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From: steve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Enquiry about Mac
Message-ID: <482@cpdaux.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 14:13:49 GMT
References: <7801@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Products Design, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <7801@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> hsu@cs.purdue.EDU (William Hsu) writes:
}Keywords:  Low price alternative of setting up Mac system
}
}	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).

I would strongly recommend you go with the SE, and expand it as needed in
the future.  As a Radius employee, I've worked with our accelerator boards
for both the SE and the Mac Plus, and the SE is a much more elegant solution
to the acceleration problem, thanks to Apple's expansion slot.  The Mac Plus
accelerator is the best we can do given there's no expansion slot, and there
can be problems with the install.  Granted, once it's installed, if it works
there's usually no problem, but it wasn't designed to come off and be put back
on many times, and if the machine needs service there can be some interesting
problems.

Besides, the SE can support the FDHD drives (1.4mb), and just seems like a
better machine to start out with.  It's also a bit faster than a stock Mac
Plus, and the keyboard is nicer (not to mention you have a choice of which
keyboard you want).  Basically, I just think that as a machine that is expec-
ted to be upgraded, the superior choice is the SE.
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