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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIci HD failures
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.005110.12305@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 90 00:51:10 GMT
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In article <22222@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce
Burkhalter) writes:
> In article <41717.25DC22AF@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Jim.Bethin@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Bethin) writes:
> >I have only read one desperate note about Mac IIci hard disk failures (80
> >Meg). Is this a (quiet) rampant plague?  A friend is thinking of
> >cancelling his order & reordering w/o the Apple internal 80 Meg.  Thanks.
> 
> I bought a IIci without HD and 1 meg of memory because it was a better
deal to 
> get them from a third party.  Right now you can get a Quantum 105 meg
for around
> $650 and 4 megs of RAM for about $250.  The warrenty on the drive is 3 years
> (compared to 90 days from Apple).

I second this. You can easily save $300, and end up with 5M of RAM /
105M hard disk, instead of 4M/80HD. Also, note previous discussions
about 5M machines tending to be faster (if the built-in video is used).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu