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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: IIe obsolete/redundant? (was:Re: MacLCw/IIe emulator)
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Date: 24 Oct 90 06:39:03 GMT
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In article <2176@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> alfter@uns-helios.uucp (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>In some article w/a# nobody understands, I wrote:
>>[I made a statement about how the //e is redundant with the IIc+ out]
>Not so fast, there!  Can you expand a IIc Plus?  How much RAM can you stick in
>it?  A RamWorks III is supposed to be able to take up to 16 megs, plus RGB and
>a 65816.  How fast can you make a IIc Plus go?  A Zip Chip probably won't work
>in it, and I know a TransWarp III won't work.

	Well I think you can put as much memory in a //c as you can in a
//e but I may be wrong.
	Do you have any reasons as to why you know/think a Zip Chip wouldn't
work in a //c??? You --seem-- to imply that it's obvious that it wouldn't
work, and I don't see that it is, when a //e is basically the same as a 
//c...

>Five years ago I picked a IIe over a IIc for one simple reason:  the IIe can be
>easily and cheaply upgraded and expanded.  The same, IMHO, holds true for any
>comparison between a IIe and IIc Plus.  Given a choice between those two
>computers, I would still buy a IIe.  (Add a IIGS to those choices, though, and
>I would probably decide differently. :-) )

	Well, your statement about adding a GS to the choices is also part
of my point too..

	The GS is the 'high end' Apple II, and the IIc+ is the low end/
portable Apple II...

	We got our //e the Christmas before the IIc came out I believe..
At -first- I was sort of disappointed that we didn't get the 'state of
the art' (i.e. NEWEST, which were equivalent in my head.. which wasn't
true) Apple II.  But then I realized it was good I had the //e.. But
that same exact argument doesn't work now since the GS is out.

	The //e and the IIc are virtually identical, I believe.. I
mean from a user perspective.. The IIc has built in serial ports right?!
So you don't need serial cards...

	So, them being virtually identical (from a user-standpoint),
it's silly to sell two computers that are the same... Apple does it all
the time seemingly with the Macs but that's the same silliness..
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