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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???
Message-ID: <3929@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 14:42:57 GMT
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References: <1991May14.013023.18264@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <1991May14.155036.26366@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> <13043@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In article <13043@pt.cs.cmu.edu> cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Cowboy) writes, among
other things:

>Perhaps I'm naive (and I'm sure those of you who believe so will let me know),
>but for me, this is great! I need more speed, and I need more memory (give
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>me more, More, MORE!!!!!) I have 4 MB right now. And I want it pronto. I have
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>an SE, and would very much like an SE/30. Actually, I would like a IIfx, but
>unless somebody wants to give me a deal I've only seen in dreams, I can't
>afford one.
>
>I can also get colour with an SE/30, which I can't with an SE. And I want to be
>able to edit larger bit maps and, as I said before, do other, more memory
>intensive work. And I don't wish to wait forever as I currently do.

Yes, it is nice that Apple finally dropped the price of the SE -> SE/30
upgrade, but (as far as I know) they still have yet to offer it 32-bit
clean.  You want more memory, and so do I, but even with the upgrade it's
an 8MB limit.  Once developers start taking advantage of System 7's ne
features, you'll soon feel the bite of that limit.

For that reason alone, I (and probably many others) refuse to purchase the
upgrade until Apple makes some kind of statement (any kind of statement!!!)
about 32-bit cleanness.  Hell, I was willing to pay the old price if I got
a 32-bit clean upgrade.

         ---------   Doc


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