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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Re: Why not buy a Mac?
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Date: 24 Mar 89 06:33:11 GMT
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>where will that leave SE owners in a few years? or will that become a
>dead machine as the Mac II line progresses?

Apple has already announced an upgrade for the SE to the SE-030 (due this
Spring - still vaporware as far as I know - the price quoted in InfoWorld
was $1,000 <or maybe between $1,000 and $1,500 I haven't the file I
saved the info in at home>).

The Direct bus in the SE-030 is faster than NuBus (but doesn't offer the
multichannel capability, which isn't so important in a one slot system)
AND there is some notion (not really articulated by anyone in authority
at Apple in anything I've read) that the SE line is targeted at the
"personal" single user (running mostly one task at a time) while the
Mac II line is targeted at the server/multiuser/multiple task/numerical-
graphic intensive workstation market.

Apple appears strategically committed to the SE and Mac II as distinct
but compatible products for at least the next 3-5 years.  Would that
plans for the II line were so clear...

/s Murph <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CornellC.CIT.Cornell.Edu>
     aka <psuvax1!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall>

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      it came fully loaded.
      It was guaranteed for 90 days,
      but in 30 was outmoded!
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