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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Mac SE dilemma
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Date: 17 Mar 89 17:53:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Mar 17 11:53:00 1989


Mac SE w/20Mb Hard Drive
MORE Con's:
1.  The warranty on Apple's hard drive is a "generous" 90 days (*snicker*).
    Most 3rd party drives come with 2-5 year waranties.  Hard drives
    often break by self-destructing, making it necessary to junk the
    entire drive.  So a long warranty is a NECESSITY.

2.  The Apple drive is amazingly slow.  Something like 85ms accesss time.
    It is easy to get a 40ms or even 28ms hard drive from a 3rd party
    company.  This makes a WORLD of differences in certain applications,
    especially databases and hypercard.

3.  For about the same money, you can usually get a THIRTY megabyte
    INTERNAL 3rd party drive that is faster, with a longer warranty.
    Yes, a handful of companies make INTERNAL drives that let you keep
    your two floppies and drive ALL in the SE case.  This is extremely
    convenient, and saves $100 for an enclosure, power supply, etc.

Go for the 3rd-party drive.