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From: luigi@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (John L Luigi Giasi)
Subject: Re: Which is the better IIsi deal?
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Date: 20 Apr 91 15:03:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.053706.24446@cec1.wustl.edu> bst2948@cec2.wustl.edu (Bryan Sauhsung Tung) writes:
>	Washington University (St. Louis) is offering two configurations of the IIsi: 3/40 for $2450
>      5/80 for $2975
>
>	What size memory is used in these configurations?  Would it be cheaper  to buy the 3/40 and add 2 megs of RAM and another hard disk?
>
 I know this may sound screwy but realize that you will have to buy 4megs of
memory to upgrade the 3 meg machine -> 5 meg... becuase the first bank of
the si has 1 meg of 256k SIMMs in it that you cannot remove! So you must remove
the 2 meg bank of 512k SIMMs and replace them with 4-1Meg SIMMs. Then you 
can either give (or sell) the 2 meg bank to someone else, or you could use them as decorations.   I find the apple 80meg hard drives to be noticbly faster
than the standard 40meg and if you are going to upgrade anyway....
 
Luigi Giasi
Luigi@rpi.edu