Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cme!durer!paisley From: paisley@circus.cme.nbs.gov (Scott Paisley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac + vs Mac SE Message-ID: Date: 26 May 89 15:10:00 GMT References: <391@zeus.hf.intel.com> <29326@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <106857@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@cme.nbs.gov Organization: Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 28 In-reply-to: kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM's message of 26 May 89 04:30:49 GMT In article <106857@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth) writes: In article <29326@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes: >>(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?) >I should hope not! Repeatedly starting and stopping a hard disk drive >is the one thing most likely to cause premature death (er, next to Yes I agree. I leave my hard drive on all day and shut it off only at night since I don't always use my mac everyday. (hard to believe eh?) About MacPlus vs MacSE: I would get a MacPlus over the SE if I needed on. The price difference would allow you to get a substantial sized harddisk for the plus. The only advantage that I see to getting an SE is that Apple will probably support the SE longer than the Plus. However there are so many MacPluses out there, even lack of support will not be a problem for a long time. (I think...) Yet another opinion from... -- "...and this thing you call language - you depend on it for so much, yet none of you are its master." -Carlos the Medusan Scott Paisley paisley@cme.nbs.gov ..!uunet!cme-durer!paisley