icsu8165@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Wood) (11/12/89)
Lately I have noticed where people treat the original Mac II as a dead machine. Is this really valid? Just because apple does not produce it anymore, does not at all effect it's usefullness. I can remember when the II first came out, people were saying "Man, what will I do with all this power?". So apple comes out with a quicker machine and now every- one treats the II as long gone. Consider the improvements of the cx and x. Granted these new machines are a bit faster, modular ( cx ), etc. but is this enough to go out and buy one if you already own the good old II? Granted, I am an owner of a II, but I am also one who needs a lot of power as I am interested in animation. I will be upgrading in the future of course, but does the II deserve all the bad press? There are people out there using the old apple II's. I think before we all go writing this machine off, we should first consider it's usefullness and put it where it will be used. -- Subject: Chips and drives Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Distribution: usa Keywords: XC
gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (11/14/89)
I own a mac II, and don't see it as a "dead" machine. I think some people dumped their Mac II system units to get IIcx units. I think some of those people took a bath and might be unhappy. For the word processing I do, it's not visibly slower. The only speed difference is in crystal quest (which is easier 8-) ). The Mac II has no 68851, but no upgrades are necessary to run vaporware! (system 7.0) The Mac II has no 1.4Mb floppy, but for $400 I can live with a few extra disk swaps during backups. The 1.4Mb drive seems to write just as slowly as an 800K drive (an engineering mistake, in my opinion). My machine also has a nice, burned-in 80Mb 5" Quantum disk, with time-tested grease inside. After 1 year, I tapped the video cable to feed power to my modem. Some day, I'll get a quieter fan. These improvements are only possible with an expired warranty 8-). It's nice not to be on the "bleeding edge" of technology (Apple users seem to bleed more than most).
graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GRAEFE WILLIAM S) (11/14/89)
In article <126900101@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
=I own a mac II, and don't see it as a "dead" machine. I think some
I agree. Mine still does everything I want it to do.
=Some day, I'll get a quieter fan. These improvements are only
A cheap way I found to quiet the obnoxious fan was to buy ($20) a Mac II
stand from Kensiongton. Now my machine stands vertially next to my desk
and I can't hear the fan (the carpet below helps, too- fortunately, the fan
blows onto the carpet, instead of sucking in dust.)
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