Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!saul.cis.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: The LC vs. IIsi (CPUs) Message-ID: <44397@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 10 Jun 91 13:20:47 GMT References: <1991Jun5.175401.14345@sequent.com> <1991Jun7.192453.11305@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991Jun8.141945.496@otago.ac.nz> <1991Jun9.203402.15701@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun10.091308.506@otago.ac.nz> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: saul.cis.upenn.edu In article <1991Jun10.091308.506@otago.ac.nz> michael@otago.ac.nz writes: >In article <1991Jun9.203402.15701@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes: >> Actually, I wonder about the economics of the LC design. In today's >> world of single-board CPUs, and falling memory prices, I can't see how >> a 16-bit bus saves much money.... >> How much money would it have cost >> apple to provide two extra simm sockets and more wires on the PC board >> of the LC? Less than $40? > >It may be the "more wires" that are the problem, making the board more >expensive. I find this difficult to believe, though. They manage to get 32 bits >to the ROMs, so why not to the RAM? I fear we are seeing the dead hand of >marketing in action, i.e this is a low cost machine ergo it must have lower >performance... Perhaps, god forbid, they had the consumer in mind as well. Perhaps, with a target in the lowend market, they wanted to allow the consumer to upgrade the machine without laying out for four simms. I know all of you "Apple is the root of all marketing evil" folks will disagree, but I remeber back a little while when II owners were whining about how much they had to lay out when they felt they really only needed a small upgrade. Just an idea Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Hodas Home Phone: (215) 222-7112 4223 Pine Street School Office Phone: (215) 898-9514 Philadelphia, PA 19104 New E-Mail Address: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu