gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) (12/07/90)
So I've finally made the decision to buy a Mac, and being a destitute grad
student, I find my choices quite limited. My dream computer is something
from the Mac IInn family, but here's the problem: I only have about
$1000-$1500 to spend. Time to reevaluate my priorities.
The bare bones of what I need to accomplish my work is a Mac with > 1.5 Meg
of memory (I need to run Word 4 and Cricket and Excel simultaneously) and
at least a 40 Meg hard disk. I also need an Imagewriter or some _cheap_
alternative.
The Classic looks like a natural way to accomplish all of the above, but
it's presence on the market has done remarkable things to the prices of
used SE's and Pluses. Here's the real question: Why should I pay $1150
for the classic when I can buy an almost equivalent SE for a few hundred
dollars less? The flip side of the question is this: Why should I buy
a used "orphan" computer (that is almost never configured with what I want)
when the classic (an almost equivalent computer) comes configured as I want
it for only a few hundred more.
From the point of view of a Mac user like myself, there appears to be no
difference between the two machines. The only kind of expandability that
really interests me is memory. I'd like to run a program the chews
up 3 Meg all by itself (but this is not a really large priority). And other
accessories (except modems) don't interest me at this time.
I'd be interested to hear arguments for both sides of the debate.
Thanks in advance,
--Dan
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