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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: The real reason to buy SE/Classic over Plus
Message-ID: <124837@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 19:54:16 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services
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OK guys...

You want to know why you shouldn't buy a used Plus instead of a Classic or
an SE?

While reading this thread you've come on to two other threads in this
very newsgroup... one with video problems on a Plus, and one with power
supply problems on a Plus.

The Plus has a lontg history of frying video cards and power supplies!

In our public lab here, we go through one or the other on a twice-a-week
basis!  Our SE in the operators' room is on nearly 24 hrs/day, and in the 
year I've worked here it's died once... for a floppy-drive problem (bad
eject mechanism).

The Plus is also slightly slower, runs much hotter (less efficient power 
supply and no fan), and is discontinued. (Yeah, the SE's a goner too, but
the Classic is a new model).

You get an ADB mouse (IMHO much more comfortable than a Plus Mouse) with 
either the SE or the Classic.  You have the option of an internal HD.

With a Classic you get a one-year warranty.

I think that's all the reasons I can think of... either way, it's still
an impressive list.  maybe it'll end the argument/discussion on this 
thread (yeah, that'll be the day!)

Dennis Lippert- macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu