Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Bug on si? (apparent mouse-up loss problem)
Message-ID: <5659@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 91 22:24:55 GMT
References: <664826581@grad15.cs.duke.edu> <3831@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <1991Jan30.172515.6479@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6494@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Motorola Technical Systems Division, Toronto Design Centre
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In article <6494@ecs.soton.ac.uk> rdw89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Williams RD) writes:
)In <1991Jan30.172515.6479@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
)...
) Seriously though, are there really that many problems with the si, or
)are the problems described common to all the Mac II range?  I can't
)see why it should be a major problem designing a computer based on a
)machine that has already been around for some time.  Software that is
)32 bit clean should (I would have thought) work as well on the si as
)on the ci or fx.  Why then are people getting drastic sounding bombs like
)'bus error'?

Since you asked...
I've had my si since last November. It crashes about ten times a day. In
fact, if I print something, there's a 90% chance the next app I open will
crash the system. Most of the games I had (on an SE, which practically never
crashed, with the same set of software) don't work. About half the time when
I boot the machine, the boot hangs, generally on a disk access (with the only
scsi device being the Apple internal hard disk, btw). Apple has replaced
the motherboard, but that had no effect. Does that answer your question :-)

I'm trying to remain optimistic. I like the price, I like the speed, and I
like the footprint. But overall I don't like the machine, and am hoping
Apple will solve the problem (hopefully a system 6.0.7 problem so I don't
have to lose my machine for service again) before I get sick of it.
(Btw, the technician tried booting the system with no external devices
hooked up and with no inits installed with the same results. A friend of mine
with an si, but different software -- more finance oriented than me -- has
similar problems, plus others related apparently to his color screen.)

In summary, there's something seriously wrong here. The new machines are
excellent in concept, but somewhat weak in execution.
-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank