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From: ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac LC and SI and DTP
Message-ID: <40050@cup.portal.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 07:10:14 GMT
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>At school I work for the Yearbook staff.  This year we are finally going
>to get a Mac and start production of the yearbook on it.  With the money
>we have available I thought that we should purchase an LC, and an 8-bit
>color card and connect a 19" monitor to it.  Is that a decent idea? 
>Are their any problems with this newly released LC?  How about an SI? 
>We could afford an SI with the normal Hires-RGB monitor, but not a full
>page display.  
>
>Any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated.
>
>--Jeff

The Mac LC does not have an expansion slot per se. There is a processor
direct slot which a board with a NUBUS slot can be plugged in. The normal
video for the LC is builtin. I'd go with the Mac IIsi if you can swing
the price. Look for a used to page monochrome display for page
composition and use the little color display for checking color images
and the like.

This is the configuration I use, except that I got lucky and have a IIfx
instead of the IIsi. While the big monochrome doesn't show the color
photos worth sh*t, gray-scale photos are very good if you get a card with
256 shades of grey.

Ed
ekalenda@cup.portal.com