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From: rhsu@topaz.rutgers.edu (Robert Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac Plus or SE?
Message-ID: <16179@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 15:45:30 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.16179
Posted: Mon Nov  2 15:45:30 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 03:33:35 EST
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Hello All,

Finally my funds are such that buying a Mac no longer
seems like an impossible dream (starving college student here).
However, I want to make sure that this investment will last
a long time.  Currently I am thinking of buying a Macintosh Plus,
but I'm not sure whether it will be obsolete real soon.

Rutgers Prices are:
Mac Plus	$1149
Mac SE		 1606
Mac SE 20MB HD	 2070

As my main applications will be word processing and communications
with larger computers, I really don't care about the little speed
advantage the SE has to offer.  (In fact, someone told me the SE
will be obsolete real soon, too.  If so, I might as well wait till
I get $3500 and get a Mac II)

Can any gurus enlighten me as to what other advantages the SE has
over the Plus, besides the extra disk drive, the expansion slot, and
the bigger ROM?  I'm interested in less tangible things, such as
software compatibility:  Will there be future software that will run
on the SE but not the Plus?  What's in the SE ROM that's not in
the Plus?  As a programmer, will you be able to do more tricks
with the SE than the Plus?  etc...

Also, does anybody have recommendations for a 2400 baud external
modem that's realtively cheap?

Thanks in advance.

-Rob