Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is Apple Dumping Mac IIs? Message-ID: <15531@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 14 Oct 89 20:29:41 GMT References: <1989Oct12.163734.26748@agate.berkeley.edu> <963@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> <1989Oct13.165741.28675@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 49 In article <1989Oct13.165741.28675@agate.berkeley.edu> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes: >In article <963@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes: >#> >#>It appears to me that you like many others have expections that are way to >#>high for what you are getting. Technology will always continue to advance >#>much faster than you or I would like. I would like to get a IIci (have a cx) >#>but the price difference is to high. Eventually that will change as yet >#>even more faster and higher priced perhaps CPU's come out. > >Plainly you have misunderstood my expectation. I think it's fine >that technology is improving so fast even though the Kaypro II I >paid $700 for is now considered a piece of junk. What I want is >the availability of that technology on the Mac II platform. I >don't think it's unreasonable to expect--when you buy a machine >with six empty slots, with the selling point that the slots will >be used in part for technology improvements--that all the new >improvements would be made available through the slots at a >reasonable cost. My Mac is only 2 years old after all. Wait a second... I have never seen an Apple ad that claimed that the slots were to be used for "Technology Improvements", certainly not upgrades from apple. I bought my II with the belief that the slots would be used for the things slots are usually used for, perippherals. So I expected to use them for monitors, maybe modems, maybe even a scsi cache card, but I never expected for apple to offer processor upgrades, and I challenge you to show me an ad implying they would. In fact I have never seen any apple ads that sais anything about being able to upgrade the technology of any of their machines in any manner. I am sorry you misunderstood the purpose of the slots, but I really dont think apple can be blamed. Josh (I am sorry for the slightly flamish tone of this note, but I just am really getting tired of the littany of objections raised every time apple introduces a new machine. As has been pointed out Apple is one of the few companies that offers any upgrade paths at all) ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-5423 (school office)