🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't keep enough track of who writes what here, and there's often
too much to read to catch all the well-thought-out stuff anyway, but
kudos to Andy for making USENET a wonderful place.  Very knowledgeable
and concise writing here, at least to my eye.

I've added a couple comments that don't compare, but might prove useful.

In article <atticus-ya023580000502970230350001@news.mindspring.com> atticus@mindspring.com (Andy Walton) writes:
>In article <rengel-0402972213340001@dialup132.tcs.tulane.edu>,
>rengel@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Ronald E Engel) wrote:
>  :At CompUSA, the worker swore to me that the PowerMac 7500/100 was much
>  :better (worth the extra $500) than the Performa 6400 even though on paper
>  :it looked worse. A bystander then walked by and said that that was
>  :completely wrong, that the 6400 would be better.

Check out the March issue of MacUser if you're open to going with a
clone.  I was thinking about going with the 6400 until noticing the
PowerBase240.  

BTW, any comments on that tradeoff?  (Both are 603e-based.)

>I don't recommend Performas that often, but I think the CompUSA guy was
>giving you bad advice. The 7500/100, first of all, has been discontinued
>for several months, replaced by the 7600/120 and 7600/132. The sales guy
>has an incentive to push old inventory, which I suspect he was doing. The
>7500/100 should be a clearance deal, and shouldn't cost $500 more than the
>6400.

On the other hand, didn't Apple just cut prices?  And at least the
6400 was one of the models that got a price cut, if I remember
correctly.  7500/100 may have, too, of course.

The article mentioned above doesn't take into account the new prices,
so you'll have to adjust their ratings for the cuts.  And of course it
doesn't compare the 7500, since it's a little older.

>- More RAM upgradability. The 7500 has 8 DIMM slots and 16Mb on the
>  motherboard, for a total of 528MB max RAM. the 640 has 8 on the
>  motherboard and 2 slots, for a maximum of 136MB.

And you're more likely after one or two memory upgrades not to have to
trash the last upgrade just to get more.  A GREAT reason in my opinion
for many slots, that I wouldn't have thought of without this great post.


-- 
Chris
ruebeck@jhu.edu