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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Rom 04 comment
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Date: 28 Feb 90 06:18:41 GMT
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wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>I'm all for the idea of a ROM 04 machine, but I have one thing I
>want to scream at the top of my lungs at all listening Apple
>Employees and that is:


>UPGRADE PATH!

>You heard me.


I heard you. I'm not an employee of Apple, but I ask you this:

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW IMPRACTICAL IT IS TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU ASK?

What's Apple going to do with you old machine? Recycle it?

If you've had your GS for over a year or two I very seriously doubt you can
reasonably expect any company to give you even half value on a trade in.

This is the age of disposable motherboards.

I don't like it either, but that's the way it is. Now Apple can either make
the new computer cheap enough that you won't mind just buying the CPU on its
lonesome (my preferred idea, since the GS motherboard upgrade only saved you
$300 anyway), or they can piss off a lot of people by not offering an upgrade.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu