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In article <1993Jan6.161342.27695@newshost.lanl.gov>, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
>Ah, c'mon, Howard.  These comments may have been close to the mark for the
>early Macs, but certainly isn't the case for any of the modular ones (LC, si,
>ci, fx, vx, vi, quadra, etc).  The ci has a cache card slot, SIMM sockets, and
>4 Nubus slots into which may be inserted graphics adapters, ethernet cards,
>accelerators, sound cards, video capture cards, etc.  You don't even have to
>turn a screw to "pop the hood" for access to the motherboard.

The LC, LC II and IIsi are not exactly what I'd call 'modular'.  Neither are
the PowerBook series, Apple Computer's most popular selling machine at present.

The LC/LC II/IIsi have one slot -- and it isn't even a NuBus slot!  True, you
can "pop the hood" easily enough, and the SIMMs are fairly inexpensive.  But if
you want to put an ethernet card AND some other card into a Macintosh, just
make sure you're paying more than $2000 for the system, since the low end
systems only give you the one slot.

(This is the voice of experience.  I had to reconfigure a proposed system due
to the fact that an LC II has only one slot and would require a graphics
adapter board in order to use a full-page monitor, while the IIsi with only one
slot had the graphics adapter built-in.  I needed that one slot for an ethernet
card ...).

The lower end Macintosh machines are no more 'upgradable' than the Mega STe or
TT.  The PowerBooks aren't 'upgradeable' using any cogent definition of the
word.

-- David Paschall-Zimbel