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From: bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple's Pricing, IIx question
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Date: 2 Apr 89 20:40:51 GMT
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>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...

So far, the only 33MHz '030 upgrades I have seen are in the $4K range
(discount!).  Are there any cheap ones?  And, how much improvement can
be had from the Orchid '020 cache card?  It is only $300 (I think),
but the improvement seems minimal....  (I can use all the CPU I can get
for doing FreeHand graphics....).