Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!umigw!umiami!gross From: gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Mondo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: New Mac Frustrations Message-ID: <1990Nov9.172342.7363@umiami.ir.miami.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 21:23:41 GMT Organization: Univ. of Miami - Info Resources Lines: 35 Ya know, the more I hear about what Apple left out of the low-cost Macs, the more I get annoyed with it. For example... 1) The switch to a 16-bit data path on the 68020. Albeit it's not a real big slowdown, it doesn't seem that the price would be so outrageously affected by using the same chip that is in a Mac II. 2) The power problems. You can't even use the 8*24 GC card in an IIsi because it draws too much power from the supply. And Apple is pushing both the LC and IIsi as multimedia-capable machines. Yeah, they have sound input now, but that lack of power reduces the ability of those machines to handle some cards. But the biggest annoyance of all is the lack of slots. Once again, Apple is beaten in cost because cheap-o PC clones and Amigas come with at least 3 slots. It seems the only way they know how to reduce costs is to reduce features and functionality. C'mon guys, one slot? And 5 bus architectures (SE Direct, '020 Direct, '030 Direct, Portable, and NuBus)! Yes, the new stuff is cheap...but then again...you get what you pay for. And it's a got a few new bells and whistles, but in the end, it ain't anything to go bonkers over. I, for one, am real disappointed. -- Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?) =========================================================================== Hey, wanna save the world? | Got sumtin' to say? gross@umiami.bitnet Nuke a Godless, Communist, | Pick and choose! gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu gay whale for Christ. | gross@miavax.ir.miami.edu - Anonymous | jgross@umbio.med.miami.edu =========================================================================== The University of Miami has a lovely fountain.