rwe@ecsvax.UUCP (Richard W. Etzel) (11/06/87)
I need advice on available upgrades for my now obsolete 512KE. Besides voiding my Applecare, what will a McSnap upgrade from Dove do for me? Any advantages/disadvantages over Apple's upgrade to a plus? With 2megs of RAM can I use multifinder or hypercard? I'm not a speed freak, but I don't want to get left behind in the Mac II shuffle. Please e-mail comments to Gwen, c/o mcnc!ecsvax!rwe
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (11/07/87)
> I need advice on available upgrades for my now obsolete 512KE. Besides > voiding my Applecare, what will a McSnap upgrade from Dove do for me? > Any advantages/disadvantages over Apple's upgrade to a plus? With 2megs > of RAM can I use multifinder or hypercard? As long as you remember to pull it before you send your Mac in for service, the Dove upgrade won't screw up Applecare. It makes no modifications to the motehr board. With two megs, Hypercard runs just fine, thank you. As soon as I get my fingers on Multifinder I'll tell you it runs in two megs, too. Advantage of Dove over Apple upgrade: cost. You get two megs for the price of one. Disadvantages: you don't get those funny round serial ports. You aren't 'pure' apple. And occasionally the Dove can wiggle itself lose from the connections because of heat expansion/contraction, if you get unlucky. This is fixed by sticking it bakc on the motherboard again. I like my dove. chuq --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ
keith@apple.UUCP (11/08/87)
In article <33297@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >> Any advantages/disadvantages over Apple's upgrade to a plus? With 2megs >> of RAM can I use multifinder or hypercard? > >With two megs, Hypercard runs just fine, thank you. As soon as I get my >fingers on Multifinder I'll tell you it runs in two megs, too. > Runs like a champ. You can also run other programs like Word, AppleLink, MacTerminal, etc., at the same time. Don't expect to be able to run MPW, though; that blighter needs a meg of its own. -- Keith Rollin amdahl\ Sales Technical Support pyramid!sun !apple!keith Apple Computer decwrl/ Disclaimer: I read this board for fun, not profit. Anything I say is from the result of reading magazines, hacking, and soaking my head in acid.