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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac + vs Mac SE
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Date: 25 May 89 20:46:49 GMT
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Last month, I talked a relative into getting an SE.
This month, I talked a neighbor into getting a MacPlus.

Here are the pros and cons as I see them:
My relative is scared of computers. She liked the giant keyboard option
for the SE because it gave her  a good feeling to get a keyboard as big sa
one on an IBM Pc. She also liked the SE with a built-in hard disk. The new
SEs have a very quiet fan, but the hard disk drive from apple is pretty
noisy. 

(Note: if you select "Shutdown" in the finder, the hard disk powers
down even though the machine is still running. Does anyone have an INIT to
power-down the hard disk if it has been idle for 30 seconds, and to power
it back up again before the next file access?)

My neighbor is a professional programmer. She is perfectly capable of
hooking up a SCSI drive on a cable. She doesn't mind the 'plus's small
right shift key, and likes the silence, and the price.