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From: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: My decision for the LC
Message-ID: <359@alchemy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 91 19:18:08 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.133017.1@gacvx1.gac.edu>
Reply-To: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink)
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In fact, no one else could have said it better than Ben in his post on why he 
is letting go of his Apple II roots and moving to the Mac LC.  It truly is 
irrelevant how much better apple II afficionados think the GS is (and while 
doing so seeing it necessary to stretch a lot in order to compete with LC 
standard features), when it cannot really approach the price/performance ratio 
of the LC.  Quite true that the only thing the GS has going for it is one heck 
of a great sound chip - which is hardly being used by software developers.

With apple's apparent freeze on new Apple II CPUs (yet the continuing outpour 
of new Mac hardware - makes you wonder, doesn't it?), it does not appear as 
though a likely upgrade path exists for the GS.

The LC, on the other hand can be expanded (though only through one slot, 
granted), yet I have just read of one company that came out with '040 
accelerator for the LC that will give it 2-3 times the performance of the IIfx 
- quite a nifty feat (of course, the card will cost 2-3000 bucks).

In the end, it is still a matter of which computer is the best for what YOU 
will do with it.  If you are comfortable with the GS, then that is fine for 
you.  Stay with it and use it.  I generally do not thin that much can be 
achieved with the 'my computer is better than your computer debate' (though I 
have been known to engage in it as well), but one has to admit that Apple's 
positioning of the two platforms pushes the LC at the expense of the IIgs in 
such a way that any new buyer that compares them will be swayed towards the LC 
(and no, joe blow user will not care one bit about a great sound chip...).


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