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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: 16Mhz  why in the world....
Message-ID: <430095@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 23:31:56 GMT
Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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Anyone know why Apple is bothering with 16Meg 68030s?????????
The result is essentually a MacII with a cheaper upgrade path. All the timing
comparisons I have seen show Mac SE/30 / IIx / IIcx to be in the same speed
league as the Mac II. 

With all this high sales profit $$$ alledgedly going into R&D, why are we
seeing machines that basically behave like the now ageing MacII?????
I have noticed major design for manufacturing improvements and component
improvements that would make the new machines cheaper to build & upgrade,
BUT   They basically behave like MacIIs.

For the longest time I have wondered why Apple bothered with the SE when
they had the Mac+. They could have just tweeked the + a little, & got on to
the business of creating a new Mac.


Now we have fancy MacIIs. Apple is talking about multi media & real time
animation. I believe you need more hores power then is currently available
to be able to completely redraw the screen 20 to 25 times per second.

Why in the world didn't the SE/30 & IIcx come out with 33Mhz 68030s??????
What about a second processor to handle the screen?? Third party
manufacturers seem to be able to build 33Mhz 68030 accellerator boards that
work with the newer Macs using Mac software. Why does Apple's R&D hesitate
where companies with comparitively pico R&D budgets can do it?????

Just wondering,

TeriAnn

PS My Mac+ does even more then it could when it was new because I have better
software to run on it. Luckally, its performance dosn't degrade whenever
Apple toots the horns & rolls out a brand new incremental tweek in
new product clothing. Come the 33Mhz MacIIcx I will probably decide
its time for a new computer.