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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple's Pricing, IIx question
Message-ID: <7590@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 89 01:26:50 GMT
References: <919@fornax.UUCP> <1080@esquire.UUCP> <7386@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
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In article <7386@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
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||| [about the $2000 Apple charges for IIx upgrades]
||
||Why not just skip the wimpy II -| IIx upgrade (you only get a 10-15%
||speedup, and no, the PMMU is not currently used at all by MacOS, only
||AU/X) and go for a 3rd party 33MHz 68030 upgrade.  It'll probably
||cost you less and you'll blow away anything Apple now offers.
|
|I wish!  (Boy do I wish!)  I would love to get the Daystar board, but I don't
|have a spare $7000.  That's right.  Seven grand.  Plus tax.  And that's and
|add on, not a replacement motherboard.

Actually, there are other accelerators which go for considerably less.  For
example, MacConnection has the Dove Marathon 030 (32Mhz) for somewhere
around $1000.  While it dosen't have a cache, it may be possible (I don't
know yet) to combine this with the MacOrchard cache (32K cpu cache designed
for the stock 020 in the II).  If so, then you can get a sizable increase in
speed for about $1300.


Christopher Chow
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