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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SuperMac Colorcard/24
Summary: How's it compare to the RasterOps?
Message-ID: <1222@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 89 18:03:16 GMT
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Greetings,

  Well, just when you think you know what you're going to buy, somebody pulls
the rug out...

  I was going to order the RasterOps ColorBoard 264, and then I got email
suggesting that I check out the new Colorcard/24 from SuperMac.  It's
suggested retail is $999, compared with $995 on the RasterOps, and unlike the
RO, it has a socket for a QuickDraw accelerator, which apparently makes 24bit
faster than normal 8bit.  (The accelerator is another $500 or so, but you
can add it later...).

  The RasterOps I can get for about $715, including everything.  The best price
I've found on the SuperMac is about $845, also including tax, shipping, etc.
For $130, then, I get the option of blazing-fast 24bit color later.

  So, does anybody out there have any experience with the SuperMac board?  Do
you know of anyplace where I can get one for less than the price I quoted?

  Any help would be most appreciated.  Since the Mac IIx that all of this is
going into could show up anytime after Monday, I want to make this purchase
ASAP, since the machine doesn't work too well w/out that card...  Therefore,
if you know anything, I'd be endebted it you'd send it on!

Many thanks,

--Mike