hsu@cs.purdue.EDU (William Hsu) (08/31/89)
Title: I wanna buy a Mac
Keywords: Low price alternative of setting up Mac system
Hi,
I just found myself needing a computer. Not able to spend too
much money, I would like to find out what is the cheapest way of owning
a Mac without sacrificing performance.
I do need a Mac w/1MB onboard, expandable in future,
40MB hard disk, and possibly a printer (for draft only). I am
considering the following combinations:
1. Mac SE
2. Mac plus, 512 Enhanced (available used, very cheap)
adding accelerator board myself, and expanding the memory
on the accelerator board to whatever quantity that is allowed.
I would like to know what you, experienced Mac users think. I am
more incline to (2), since it would be able to run faster than a
stock Mac SE. My application would be mostly Word Processing, Spread Sheet
and possbibly some math, engineering package (Spice, Mathematica etc).
Your e-mail response is preferred, but I would check on the
Net-news for the next few days for your responses too. Thanks.
Kong Ng
kcng@ecn.purdue.edu
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William Hsu
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University (317) 494-7811.
Internet: hsu@cs.purdue.edu
uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!purdue!hsusteve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke) (09/05/89)
In article <7801@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> hsu@cs.purdue.EDU (William Hsu) writes: }Keywords: Low price alternative of setting up Mac system } } I do need a Mac w/1MB onboard, expandable in future, }40MB hard disk, and possibly a printer (for draft only). I am }considering the following combinations: } } 1. Mac SE } 2. Mac plus, 512 Enhanced (available used, very cheap) } adding accelerator board myself, and expanding the memory } on the accelerator board to whatever quantity that is allowed. } } I would like to know what you, experienced Mac users think. I am }more incline to (2), since it would be able to run faster than a }stock Mac SE. My application would be mostly Word Processing, Spread Sheet }and possbibly some math, engineering package (Spice, Mathematica etc). I would strongly recommend you go with the SE, and expand it as needed in the future. As a Radius employee, I've worked with our accelerator boards for both the SE and the Mac Plus, and the SE is a much more elegant solution to the acceleration problem, thanks to Apple's expansion slot. The Mac Plus accelerator is the best we can do given there's no expansion slot, and there can be problems with the install. Granted, once it's installed, if it works there's usually no problem, but it wasn't designed to come off and be put back on many times, and if the machine needs service there can be some interesting problems. Besides, the SE can support the FDHD drives (1.4mb), and just seems like a better machine to start out with. It's also a bit faster than a stock Mac Plus, and the keyboard is nicer (not to mention you have a choice of which keyboard you want). Basically, I just think that as a machine that is expec- ted to be upgraded, the superior choice is the SE. -- ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE ----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"