...LETTUCE) (09/07/88)
I am looking for some helpful hints before making my next step into
the computer world. My family owns an Apple IIe with a meg of memory.
My mother is the head of the math department of the secondary schools
in my school district. She is constantly on the computer writing
reports, writing tests, making spreadsheets, and using a database for
large math teachers association with AppleWorks. She also uses a IIe
at school.
We are now looking into upgrading/getting to a new computer. We have
narrowed our options to the Mac SE or the Apple IIgs. With her
educators discount, there is only a couple of hundred dollars difference
between the two.
She would like to go with the GS so she doesn't have to 'learn another
computer' though the Mac doesn't require much. She is also hoping
to use our next computer to be used in classrooms for tutorials and
demonstrations. This is where I think the IIgs wins. There are also
many IIgses in the school, so she can use those when at school if
she needs to.
This is where my greater dilemma arises. Since we really don't need
to upgrade today, should we wait for the newer GS to come out. I
know it hasn't even been announced yet. I also saw a rumor that
said Apple isn't even thinking about a new GS until the Macs have
better performance. Can some people speculate what I might miss if
I get the GS today? Do you think the GS to GS+(?) upgrade will be
outrageous? ($450+ or something in that ball park?) Will the changes
be significant enough to wait? What do you think? Or should we just
get the Mac?
Any discussions, opinions, suggestions, help hints, or the like will
be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you,
Trevor
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (09/08/88)
> This is where my greater dilemma arises. Since we really don't need > to upgrade today, should we wait for the newer GS to come out. I > know it hasn't even been announced yet. I also saw a rumor that > said Apple isn't even thinking about a new GS until the Macs have > better performance. Can some people speculate what I might miss if > I get the GS today? Do you think the GS to GS+(?) upgrade will be > outrageous? ($450+ or something in that ball park?) Will the changes > be significant enough to wait? What do you think? Or should we just > get the Mac? The short answer: Get the GS Rationale 1) there is ALWAYS the greatest gee-whiz, gosh-golly computer you've ever seen just a few months away (the 65832 Apple II, the 68030 Macintosh, the 80486 IBM PS/whatever). You'll wait forever if you want to wait for "just one more improvement." 2) There are (or soon will be) accelerators for the IIgs which will make it just as fast (and probably just as good except for possibly higher graphics resolution which probably someone will provide with an expansion board anyway) as the IIgs+ 3) The IIgs+ isn't likely to arrive for more than 12 months (want to wait THAT long? Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) (09/09/88)
I friend of mine's mother is also a teacher, and works with students
who work with the IIe and IIgs in school. She got a IIgs for that
reason, and hasn't regretted it since.
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