dhare%integral@Sun.COM (Dwight Hare) (09/22/89)
Has Apple announced anything about an upgrade from the plain old vanilla Mac II to the new IIci? The performance of the IIci is impressive enough that I'm willing to consider paying the big bucks to upgrade. If Apple hasn't announced, what are the chances they eventually will offer such an upgrade? I would think they would, since one of the big selling points about the Mac II was its ability to be upgraded easily. Dwight Hare sun!dhare dhare@sun.com
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (09/22/89)
>Has Apple announced anything about an upgrade from the plain old vanilla >Mac II to the new IIci? Not possible. A Mac II is a six slot machine with the large footprint. The Mac IIci is the three slot package based on the IIcx. There's no way you could field upgrade one to the other without simply taking one and replacing it wholesale. -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking. I am not Appl Segmentation Fault. Core dumped.
malczews@girtab.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) (09/22/89)
In article <125113@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> dhare@sun.Eng (Dwight Hare) writes: >Has Apple announced anything about an upgrade from the plain old vanilla >Mac II to the new IIci? The performance of the IIci is impressive enough >that I'm willing to consider paying the big bucks to upgrade. If Apple >hasn't announced, what are the chances they eventually will offer such >an upgrade? I would think they would, since one of the big selling points >about the Mac II was its ability to be upgraded easily. > >Dwight Hare >sun!dhare dhare@sun.com Unfortunately, the sizes of the boxes are somewhat different. You'll just have to wait for the 33MHz Mac IIwhatever come next year (at least the odds are pretty good that the cpu boxes will be the same...). Pure 2+2 speculation. Not speculation is that it will cost >> arm+leg. -- -- Frank Malczewski (malczews@girtab.usc.edu)
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (09/22/89)
In article <125113@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> dhare@sun.Eng (Dwight Hare) writes: >Has Apple announced anything about an upgrade from the plain old vanilla >Mac II to the new IIci? The performance of the IIci is impressive enough >that I'm willing to consider paying the big bucks to upgrade. If Apple >hasn't announced, what are the chances they eventually will offer such >an upgrade? I would think they would, since one of the big selling points >about the Mac II was its ability to be upgraded easily. It won't be possible to upgrade from a Mac II to a IIci, since the ci uses the same form factor as the IIcx. There are plans to offer an upgrade route to the ci from the cx, though. So far, I haven't heard anything on pricing, only that it would be available "later this year". To upgrade a II to something else (from Apple, that is; I'm not talking about DayStar boards and such), you'll have to wait 'till Apple comes out with something new that matches the II/IIx form factor :-). John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |