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Article #38976IIcx intro (Mac II dead?)
From: William M. Bumgarner
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 03:56
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 03:56
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Apparently, the IIcx will be priced slightly lower than the Mac II. This makes the machine a very tempting upgrade path. Beyond that-- a person should be able to sell a Mac II, and buy a IIcx with very little loss of $$$ on the deal. First time I have ever heard of being able to do such a feat in the computer industry! A Thought: What is the point of the Mac II? Other than having more slots, there is no advantage to paying extra money to have a slower processor that doesn't directly support the super drives... But even the reason of having more slots isn't even valid-- The only people I could think of who need more than three slots are those doing some very elaborate data gathering or using some sort of parallel processing system. For the 'average' or even the 'super' user, there is no point in having more than three slots... Did Apple just kill that Mac II? If so, does it really matter? b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: IIcx intro (Mac II dead?) Message-ID: <QY5TLHy00WBVM34Hga@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Mar 89 03:56:03 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19