Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi  questions
Message-ID: <5690@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 04:45:50 GMT
References: <8456@plains.NoDak.edu> <91051.200412STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1991Feb21.145353.29719@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Feb21.145353.29719@athena.mit.edu> josh@athena.mit.edu (Josh Hartmann) writes:
)In article <91051.200412STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (415) writes:
)|> I just bought a IIsi - am very happy with it. You will need 5mbytes rather
)|> than 2 but I merely looked in the comics and paid $49/mbytes for memory. I
)|> installed it with *no* tools and no trouble. ...
)
)I see you like voiding your warranty! Before you could wait 90 days, but now,
)you're ruining a nice 1-year warranty.
)
)|> As far as disk is concerned, start with the 40 mbyte and expand later. Disk is
)|> constantly going down in price, to the extent that the correct approach is to
)|> run with (nearly) full disks. ...

I doubt if adding simms to an si voids the warranty. The case just pops off
the si. When I bought my si, I also bought memory from the same dealer.
The dealer assumed I would install it myself, to save a few bucks.

Anyway, I went for the 2/40 version for two reasons: (i) I could add the
memory myself at a lower cost, and (ii) I prefer to have an external disk,
in case the Mac itself dies. (This also made it easier to transfer my files
from my old SE.) So, I ended up with 5MB of RAM, an internal 40MB disk (on
which I keep only applications and fonts -- lots of fonts), and an external
170MB disk, which I selected because it was fast, very quiet, and had a
high MTBF. Basically I prefer the modular approach. I also added a portrait
monitor (Apple's).

This set-up meets my needs perfectly. I use the Mac almost exclusively for
technical documentation. After living with an SE/20 + external 40MB disk,
my advice is: you can't have too much disk space. Documents and illustrations
eat up space, and with room to spare I can let FrameMaker (for example)
make automatic back-ups for me. (FM also pretty much demands 5MB. Even on
the SE, when I only used MS Word and QuarkXpress, I couldn't get by with
less than 4.5MB).

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank