che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) (05/05/86)
I was at my local computer store and saw a $199. Mac+ 2 Meg upgrade which I originally heard about at the West Coast Computer Faire. It consists of a double row of RAM chips on a card which you can just plug into the Mac+ board. (The box also says it includes a free fan and some RAMdisk software.) It is an off-the-shelf upgrade and is supposedly user-installable. I asked the salesperson if she knew of responses from buyers. She said they've sold a few but haven't heard anything from these people. I suppose this means it's easy to install and everything works as advertised, or they've all electrocuted themselves and can't complain. :-) Does anyone actually have experience with this product? I'm sorry I don't have the name. I'd like to know whether it is easy to install and whether it works properly. Please mail info to me and I will summarize as necessary...
che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) (05/05/86)
In article <372@ptsfb.UUCP>, che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) writes: > I was at my local computer store and saw a $199. Mac+ 2 Meg upgrade which ... Yeah, but postnews choked on my signature... doesn't like signatures greater than 4 lines.... Give me a break.... Mitch Che Pacific Bell --------------------------------------- disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, too (415) 823-2438 uucp: {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfb!che
bill@crystal.UUCP (Bill Cox) (05/08/86)
In article <372@ptsfb.UUCP>, che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) writes: > I was at my local computer store and saw a $199. Mac+ 2 Meg upgrade which > I originally heard about at the West Coast Computer Faire. It consists > of a double row of RAM chips on a card which you can just plug into > the Mac+ board. (The box also says it includes a free fan and some > RAMdisk software.) It is an off-the-shelf upgrade and is supposedly > user-installable. > > Does anyone actually have experience with this product? I'm sorry I > don't have the name. I saw an ad for "MacMemory Inc." in the May MacWorld, page 25. They are selling something that sounds a lot like this, but they want FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS. Their product, called "TheMaxPlus", is a SIM with 2 rows of chips; they told me over the phone that you plugged their board in, then your original 4 SIMs with 256K each into their board. [SIM == Single Inline Memory module] The guy I talked to made a big point of it being "...2Meg of contiguous memory". They include MaxRAM and MaxPrint software: ramdisk, print spooler usable with hard disk or memory. Also mentioned a piezoelectric fan (similar to Levco's), but the fan is NOT mentioned in the ad. QUESTIONS: If this is the same thing that Mitch refers to, why the 150% price increase? I thought that the Mac+ architecture would support the 1Meg SIMs when they were available. Why should you want/need extra logic? Oki makes the 256K SIMs that I've seen - they look a lot like the ones in the Mac+, but I haven't been able to directly compare them. [btw, the 256K SIMs are available for around $25 or so each from Oki; they said that 1Megs would be available soon, but didn't quote delivery in their ad in Electronics.] MacMemory claims that "Apple uses their memory product for the Mac+." This seems a little silly. Is this true? Does anyone know anything about this company? Does anyone know anything more about the price/availability/USABILITY of 1Meg SIMs for the Mac+? bill
daf1@bunny.UUCP (David Fay) (05/14/86)
>I saw an ad for "MacMemory Inc." in the May MacWorld, page 25 ... Does
anyone know anything about this company?
I don't know about MacMemory's memory expansion for the Mac+, but I do know
about the company. I and 10 of my friends bought their 1.5 Meg memory
upgrades and then the 2 Meg upgrade when Apple made the new ROMs incompatible
with 1.5 Megs. I recommend the company highly. They have always treated us
with respect and trust, have made good on all their promises (when Apple
didn't make that impossible) and we have had no problems with their upgrades. I would not hesitate to do business with them again.
My only criticism of MacMemory is that they sometimes are disorganized on
pricing. It took several phone calls to find out what the price really was
on the 1.5 Meg upgrade. Their employees, many of whom seemed to be new,
didn't seem to know. We ended up dealing with the president of the company.
You should be aware that they have several different prices for each product.
One is for dealers, one for clubs, and one is retail. The club discount is a
hefty one (about 20-25% as I recall). It is (or was anyway) available to
anyone who ordered through a club in quantity >1. Perhaps the discrepancy in
prices you noted had to do with discounts.
David Fay
harvard!bunny!daf1
--
--------------------
David Fay
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, IL 60566
ihnp4!ihexp!dafaborton@sdcc3.UUCP (05/14/86)
In article <82@crystal.UUCP> bill@crystal.UUCP (Bill Cox) writes: [discussing 2Meg upgrades for a Mac+ by MacMemory Inc...] > >The guy I talked to made a big point of it being "...2Meg of contiguous >memory". > True salesmanship comes through again. Contiguous memory *was* an issue *before* the 128K ROMs; now it isn't whatsoever. If any saleman tries this line, tell him that *every* RAM upgrade on a machine with 128K ROMs will have contiguous space. [not just his :-)] --Chris -- Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD borton@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU || ...!{ucbvax,decvax,noscvax,ihnp4,bang}!sdcsvax!borton "Kleine Kinder spielen gern, groesser nur viel lieber!"
niel@ihwpt.UUCP (M. N. Ransom) (05/15/86)
>I saw an ad for "MacMemory Inc." in the May MacWorld, page 25 ... Does > anyone know anything about this company? > I have their 2 MB upgrade for the standard mac. It seems to work fine. One side story. After upgrading to 2 MB, I took my mac in for the ROM/drive upgrade. When I came to pick it up the repairman at the dealer told me that there was a bad connection somewhere in my mac which, despite spending an hour looking for it, he was unable to locate. He stated that he had disassembled the mac numerous times, reseated the expansion board repeatedly, etc., but to no avail. Demonstrating it to me, he would turn on the mac, the bong would occur, but the screen sould stay blank. He would then jiggle the motherboard, and sure enough, the insert disk icon would appear! My mac's "problem" of course was that he had never seen a 2 MB mac before. It takes roughly 10 sec after power up for it to complete the RAM diagnostic. By that time he would be jiggling connectors and would assume that his jiggling made it start working. Niel Ransom