Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ais.org!tony From: tony@ais.org (Tony Poole) Subject: Crippled A3000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 02 Jun 91 06:54:20 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Computing Club (UMCC) Sender: tony@irie.ais.org Originator: tony@irie.ais.org I have a question that has to deal with a 16 Mhz A3000. I am thinking about upgrading from a A1000, to an A3000, but don't think I can afford the extra three or four hundred bucks that it would take to buy a 25 Mhz 3000, so I may be aiming at the 16 Mhz. I am told from my local dealer that this computer would not be upgradable to 25 Mhz because the CPU is soldered in. What I want to know is this: Will I be able to, sometime in the future, purchase a third party board to connect expansion wise, and upgrade to 25 Mhz, exactly the same as if I actually bought a 25 Mhz model? I mean EXACTLY the same as, not close.... Is this the only difference between the two models? I don't want to lay down the bucks now, and then later wish I had sold my wife and dog to get the 25 Mhz (NO! I wouldn't do THAT....would I?). I'm sure this has been covered before, but I'm not gonna wade through screens of messages.....I'd rather waste "hundreds, if not thousands" of the net's money! Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Poole Traverse City, MI USA EMail:tony@irie.ais.org ____________________________________________________________________________