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From: carlton@tle.dec.com (Hey look!!...LETTUCE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Mac, GS, or GS+??
Message-ID: <8809061736.AA24569@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 6 Sep 88 17:36:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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     I am looking for some helpful hints before making my next step into
     the computer world.  My family owns an Apple IIe with a meg of memory.
     My mother is the head of the math department of the secondary schools
     in my school district.  She is constantly on the computer writing 
     reports, writing tests, making spreadsheets, and using a database for 
     large math teachers association with AppleWorks.  She also uses a IIe 
     at school.

     We are now looking into upgrading/getting to a new computer.  We have
     narrowed our options to the Mac SE or the Apple IIgs.  With her
     educators discount, there is only a couple of hundred dollars difference
     between the two.  

     She would like to go with the GS so she doesn't have to 'learn another 
     computer' though the Mac doesn't require much.  She is also hoping
     to use our next computer to be used in classrooms for tutorials and
     demonstrations.  This is where I think the IIgs wins.  There are also
     many IIgses in the school, so she can use those when at school if
     she needs to.  

     This is where my greater dilemma arises.  Since we really don't need
     to upgrade today, should we wait for the newer GS to come out.  I
     know it hasn't even been announced yet.  I also saw a rumor that
     said Apple isn't even thinking about a new GS until the Macs have
     better performance.  Can some people speculate what I might miss if
     I get the GS today?  Do you think the GS to GS+(?) upgrade will be
     outrageous? ($450+ or something in that ball park?)  Will the changes
     be significant enough to wait? What do you think? Or should we just
     get the Mac?

     Any discussions, opinions, suggestions, help hints, or the like will
     be greatly appreciated!! 

     Thank you,

     Trevor