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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: LC comments
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Date: 4 Mar 91 06:52:23 GMT
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In article <11745@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin) writes:
>My wife just bought a Mac IILC, and is very pleased with it. She bought
>it for $2,450, at the local university, and got the IILC with 2MB

It's not called a IILC.  Just a Mac LC.  This is not a quibble.

>There are several areas where Apple cut costs that have proven to be a
>real annoyance.
>
>1.  There is no power connector for the monitor on the back of the
>IILC. Because of this, we've inadvertently left the monitor on for long
>periods of time, not knowing that it was on and wasting lots of
>electricity. Perhaps Apple didn't realize this, but omitting the power
>connector is an anti-environmental decision. Now I have to buy a third
>party hardware device to help us save electricity.

Well, if you remember to turn it off, it is a pro-environmental decision
because no relay has been produced, and no connector is made.... That aside,
the LC is not a II-- only the II series gets niceties like that.

>2.  The shutdown menu item doesn't turn the IILC off. You have to
>physically turn the power switch in the back of the machine to the off
>position. That's real annoying, especially for someone who has only
>worked with Mac II series computers. I've heard that Apple isn't
>positioning the IILC as a mac II, but that's not apparent from the name
>(mac IILC) nor from its configuration.

My price list has it as an LC, not a IILC.

>3. Expensive VRAM kit. They're asking a lot of $$ for 256K of VRAM. Is
>it really that expensive? Are there any third party manufacturers with
>plans to bring out VRAM upgrade kits?

Probably.  I've seen ads (in Macworld) for VRAM for the original video boards
at $25-- those companies probably have VRAM for the LC.

>4. 40MB is way too small. I'm planning to replace it with a larger
>120MB drive from APS. Apple really should have give us an option for a
>larger internal drive in the IILC.

IMO, you probably should have gotten the IIsi.

[BTW, if the previous version of this article got out, sorry-- this modem
has an annoying habit of dumping old data at random times.]
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