moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (03/14/89)
The latest MacWeek has Gassee's quote for the Mac SE to Mac SE/30 upgrade: Logic board upgrade: $1,699 SuperDrive upgrade: $ 499 Available end of March. Speaking as someone with a SEx, if I were upgrading I'd skip the SuperDrive. I have no use for IBM file importing, and an extra 600K on a floppy isn't much help, since the drives aren't any faster. I use floppies soley for moving software from one machine to another, and with StuffIt and other programs capable of compressing/splitting files, high-capacity floppies with standard floppy speed aren't a thrill -- especially given what the floppies cost. I'm planning to buy five and use them for alternate startup disks, and that's it... "Daddy, Daddy, make Santa Claus go away!" "I can't, son; he's grown too powerful." "HO HO HO!" --- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
paul@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Paul Meyer) (03/14/89)
In article <7298@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: > Logic board upgrade: $1,699 > SuperDrive upgrade: $ 499 Is there any way of getting an external superdrive floppy if you get the logic board upgrade, or does Superdrive support require more hardware support inside the SE than just the logic board swap. Also, does anyone want to speculate on Consortium prices for these upgrades? -- Paul Meyer paul@caf.mit.edu Microsystems Technology Laboratory MIT