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From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: A IIsi or a IIci?
Keywords: Which would you buy?
Message-ID: <109499@convex.convex.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 16:51:19 GMT
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In article <1660@camex.COM> kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) writes:

>      4) The IIsi has sexy (but useless??) sound input hardware.

The Hyprcard 2 audio pallete will soon ship, so it won't be 
useless much longer.

>The IIci can also take a plugin cache card for a 30%-ish speedup.

I believe there is a third party that is planning to market a cache
card which will fit into the PDS slot on the IIsi.  (I can't resist:
Despite rumors to the contrary, the cache card will not work in an
automatic teller machine. :-)

>What should you buy?  Count up all the Nubus cards you know you want
>to install.  If the number is even slightly greater than one, buy a
>IIci.  If you still have a IIsi and no more than a single Nubus board
>in mind, check that the board follows the Apple power limits.

There is also a third-party manufacturer that has announced it will
produce a NuBus expansion box for the IIsi.  This should solve the
power problems as well as increasing the number of slots.  (The
reason for the power problem is that some NuBus cards use more
power than is allocated to one slot.)