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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: General Mac questions
Keywords: new user to Mac
Message-ID: <80842@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 91 14:53:50 GMT
References: <2508@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> <14673@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS
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In article <14673@milton.u.washington.edu> fransson@blake.u.washington.edu (Larry Fransson) writes:
>In article <2508@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> billy@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Bill D'Augustine) writes:
>>I am contimplating getting myself a Mac Classic computer, and have
>>some questions I an curious about.
>
>>Anyways, on the Classic model, there are two varities: one with no
>>hard drive for about $900 and one with a 40mb drive for about $1400.
>>$500 for a 40mb drive is quite a lot of money, so I am wondering,
>>if I get the one without the hard drive, can I later add a hard
>>drive too it?
>
>buy the hard drive separately.  You can, in fact, add an internal hard drive
>after the fact.  I'm not sure what that would involve, but you can bet there

It would involve one of the new "slow-start" hard drives to avoid frying the
power supply...

>Another consideration in thinking about which to buy is how much memory you
>want.  If 1 Meg will work for you, fine.  But if you are going to want more
>than that, you will have to buy the memory expansion card (you see, that's
>likely part of the $500 difference between the two).  Once you've got 2 MB,
>it is relatively simple and cheap to expand the memory farther.  I have seen

When running a Classic.. you must remember that you're running system 6.0.7,
Mac systems are getting bigger with every release... 6.0.7 running on 1 meg
is really starting to push things a bit.

For the record... I have a Classic 2/40, the student price at Pitt was 1114 +
tax & $45 shipping (they didn't tell me about the shipping until I was ready to
order... I avoided that charge and a three-month wait by buying elsewhere...
sure I paid more, but...)
I believe the 1 meg is like $749 here.

But honestly, the memory expansion card ($150) and the 4o meg hard drive 
(approx $350) will add up to the $500 retail price difference... and there
*installed*... giving you a factory-fresh, never-opened machine.

And as to the point of "If it's aout of warranty, who cares?".... there is 
(theoretically, at least) not a single Classic on the face of the earth whose
warranty will expire in less than 8 months, 27 days from now.  Remember...
1 year warranty... released just 3 months ago!

Hope the above helps bias the decision toward the 2/40!  :-)

Dennis Lippert- macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu