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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIfx problems
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.045518.1782@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 90 04:55:18 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.171342.7722@midway.uchicago.edu> jkjk@quads.uchicago.edu
>I just received a MacIIfx (w/ 4MB Apple RAM, 80MB Apple drive, Apple's 
>8-24 video card, and Apple's 13in color monitor) and am experiencing  
>difficulties:

I just received 3, IIFx's w/8 Mb Ram (4 apple, 4 Mine), 200 MB Maxtor,
and the 'NU' enhanced, standard color card & apple display, using the Fx
shipped 6.0.5 (?) system right out of the box in a vanilla configuration.
Besides the applications that won't work, requiring upgrades due to hardware
or (usually) system incompatability problems, the system does like to
mysteriously just crash.  It is intensly sensative on the scsi port.
Even trying to open or insert old disks crashes the system.  Then, when
trying to close a window that has been moved so it extends partially off
the display can/does cause spontaneously crash & burns.  The same is especially
true as the number of open windows increases.
When it runs, it's great, but the speed increase is more than negated by the
much increased crash & burns over, say a IIcx.  Boy am I a happy camper...
One of them has even had the power supply fry when the dealer installed the
video card, and another was shipped with a defective mouse.
Guess apple is too busy making new products and system versions to actually
get what they are doing right the first time.
al


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