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In article <1989Oct13.165741.28675@agate.berkeley.edu> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>In article <963@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
>#>
>#>It appears to me that you like many others have expections that are way to
>#>high for what you are getting. Technology will always continue to advance
>#>much faster than you or I would like. I would like to get a IIci (have a cx)
>#>but the price difference is to high. Eventually that will change as yet
>#>even more faster and higher priced perhaps CPU's come out. 
>
>Plainly you have misunderstood my expectation. I think it's fine
>that technology is improving so fast even though the Kaypro II I
>paid $700 for is now considered a piece of junk. What I want is
>the availability of that technology on the Mac II platform. I
>don't think it's unreasonable to expect--when you buy a machine
>with six empty slots, with the selling point that the slots will
>be used in part for technology improvements--that all the new
>improvements would be made available through the slots at a
>reasonable cost. My Mac is only 2 years old after all.

Wait a second... I have never seen an Apple ad that claimed that
the slots were to be used for "Technology Improvements", certainly
not upgrades from apple.  I bought my II with the belief that the
slots would be used for the things slots are usually used for, perippherals.
So I expected to use them for monitors, maybe modems, maybe even
a scsi cache card, but I never expected for apple to offer processor
upgrades, and I challenge you to show me an ad implying they would.
In fact I have never seen any apple ads that sais anything about 
being able to upgrade the technology of any of their machines in any manner.
I am sorry you misunderstood the purpose of the slots, but I really
dont think apple can be blamed.

Josh

(I am sorry for the slightly flamish tone of this note, but I just
am really getting tired of the littany of objections raised every
time apple introduces a new machine.  As has been pointed out Apple
is one of the few companies that offers any upgrade paths at all)




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