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In article <43g61s$4lh@feenix.metronet.com>, dcorn@metronet.com (David
Corn) wrote:
> 12M on a PC will go further than 12M on a Mac.  

That is debatable.

> Note I'm not considering RamDoubler in my opinion.
> Apple has -got- to clean up their VM scheme.  It's horrible.  

A straw man that is off subject.  I've never claimed you needed VM to 
run with 12 Megs.  I get along fine without out it.

> >Heck there are people in my branch going just fine with 8 Meg.
> 
> 680x0 or PM?

The ones I've seen have been 040's since most (all?) powermacs come
with more than 8.  However, since you can scrape by with 4 on an
040 I don't believe you can't get by with 12 on a powermac.  Besides
the bottom line is, if you feel you need more, you just get some.
This all misses the point that I made that, an older PC is just
out of luck regardless of memory.  I didn't have a program I couldn't
run on my Plus because of memory limitations (even after I had gotten 
a quadra) until about 6 months ago, and even that I could have run
with stuff turned off (A lot of people at work can still use a plus
for most software they use).  Contemporary PC's had been obsolete for
years at that point.

> I think he's talking about motherboard upgrades.  When I can add a
> 100Mhz Pentium motherboard to an older box for $600-700, that's a
> definate plus.

I can get a PowerPC upgrad for the same price.

> Agreed.  Lower-end budget Macs (and PCs, sure) have 1 SIMM socket.  If
> you have 4M on the MB and 1 8M SIMM and decide you need more, you sell
> the SIMM.  

I can't speak for all, but my Quadra 610 (a low end machine) had an
empty simm slot waiting.

> IIcis are unusably slow for someone who has a job working on a
> computer full time.  For occasional work it's bearable; for more, I
> wouldn't waste my time.  The slowest machine we buy today is a 16M or
> 24M 6100/66.

Doing what?  If you are doing spreadsheets, wordprocessing, figure
presentation, etc. It works just fine. Maybe someone doing video
editing or something needs more, but for the average user a Mac
offers a greater period of usefullness because it isn't forced
into obsolesence by lack of support.  I'm reminded of a friend who
had someone claim they needed a pentium to do wordprocessing.