Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Mac Lc vs IIgs A+ Message-ID: <9102040001.AA14006@apple.com> Date: 3 Feb 91 23:47:13 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 54 On Sun, 3 Feb 91 16:18:14 GMT said: >>The final result is still that in a feature for feature comparison, the Mac >LC >>wins simply because it has Macintosh compatibility along wit optional IIe >>compatibility. After all, think about it - all schools (!) need is IIe >>compatibility, and everything esle you can do on the GS can be done on the LC >>as well with Mac software. The LC has 4 voices. The gs has 15. I know of no inexpensive music software for the mac. The GS has plenty. The GS can display 3200 colors. The LC can display 256. The GS (and all II's) have optional ibm compatibilty (PCT). The GS has seven slots. The GS (and all II's) have optional video overlay capability. -The GS has 15 voice sound. The LC has 4. -The GS has great, inexpensive music software. -The GS can display 3200 colors. The LC can display 256 -The GS (and all II's) have optional ibm compatibility (PCT). -The GS has seven slots. -The GS has true //e compatibility built in. -The GS's //e can have up to eight megs. the LC //e can't -The LC //e takes up the LC's ONLY slot. -The LC's //e can not use cards designed for the //e. -The GS is less expensive than the LC. There's no such thing as a "better" computer. What's better for one person isn't better for another. >At the same price as a LC, the GS is the better value. As an added advantage, >accelerating the GS accelerates the IIe, this is not true on the LC. Also >increasing the amount GS memory increases the IIe memory, on the LC this is >not linear, a 2Meg LC does not have a 2Meg IIe (expanded Appleworks desktop or >large RAMdisk of course). > >Bullfrog should have added $79 for microphone input and HyperStudio. This >gives the HyperCard-like interface and voice input. > >BTW, the LC does not have 15-bit colour, 8-bit colour is as good as it gets >(unless there is a hidden video mode that I do know about), I understand that >this was a last minute addition as well, they were only going to go with 4-bit >colour on the 13" screen. Just to clarify this, and to be fair to the mac (like it deserves it!?:), the LC's video RAM can be expanded (at a high price though) to allow it to display up to 4,096 colors at once. >UUCP: bkj386!pnet91!ericmcg >INET: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com ---------------------------------------- Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com