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Article #39632Re: Apple's Pricing, IIx question
From: Brian McElhinney
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 17:28
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 17:28
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In article <1080@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes: >In article <919@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes: >> >> [about the $2000 Apple charges for IIx upgrades] > >Why not just skip the wimpy II -> IIx upgrade (you only get a 10-15% >speedup, and no, the PMMU is not currently used at all by MacOS, only >AU/X) and go for a 3rd party 33MHz 68030 upgrade. It'll probably >cost you less and you'll blow away anything Apple now offers. I wish! (Boy do I wish!) I would love to get the Daystar board, but I don't have a spare $7000. That's right. Seven grand. Plus tax. And that's and add on, not a replacement motherboard. So $2000 isn't all *that* bad, considering how much just the parts cost. Multi-layer circuit boards stuffed full of parts are not cheap. What is bad is the basic design... I do hate to say that, but 2 wait states and no cache! Shame on you, Apple. You should have known better. Brian McElhinney mce@tc.fluke.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!mce From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple's Pricing, IIx question Message-ID: <7386@fluke.COM> Date: 20 Mar 89 17:28:08 GMT References: <919@fornax.UUCP> <1080@esquire.UUCP> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Distribution: na Organization: SRS Recursive Software, Castrovalva, WA Lines: 23