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From: josh@athena.mit.edu (Josh Hartmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Quibbling about new macs (Was Re: 1/3 or 1/2 height drives for IIsi)
Keywords: IIsi, hard disk
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.015257.4891@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 90 01:52:57 GMT
References: <9847@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <109561@convex.convex.com> <1990Nov30.210449.3362@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Reply-To: josh@athena.mit.edu (Josh Hartmann)
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In article <1990Nov30.210449.3362@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:
|> In article <109561@convex.convex.com> woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods) writes:
|> >	Apple GROSSLY underpowered the power supply and has been the
|> >cause of a lot of 'accidents' with adding peripherals and third party
|> >items that draw too much power.
|> 
|> 	OK, I've heard enough about this.
|>
|> 	The point to all this is - has anyone considered the
|> possibility of beefing up the IIsi's power supply?  Can any hardware
|> person out there tell me that it's either impossible or not feasible
|> or horribly expensive to do this?

You know, it's the same old story. People like the price of the new Mac IIsi,
and IMHO it's a great machine for the price.
But people are criticizing the machine for:
     a. not enough power supply (see above references)
     b. not having the same 25MHz speed as the Mac IIci
     c. for having a "new" slot -- the funky PDS instead of a NuBus
     d. for not having a CPU ($249 option)
     e. for not having enough slots
     f. for having weird video configuration
     g. for taking smaller drives (1/3 height)
Now, I ask, if you got all these things in a Mac IIsi, what would you have?
Namely, a Macintosh IIci.
And naturally a bigger price (a la Mac IIci)
So stop quibbling. That's what you get for asking for a cheap Mac II.

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