gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) (10/10/90)
In article <149@wgate.UUCP> jwh@wgate.UUCP (Joe Hughes) writes: > > Does anyone have any information concerning the new Macintoshs that >will be released next week? Ok, one more time. This is your brain. This is your brain on Macs... Here it is, once again, for all of you who've missed it the umpteen times it's been posted before, the basic rundown on the revamped Mac line: o Mac XL (Lisa) to Mac 512KE: You're joking, right? o Mac Plus: Dead. Toasty-O's. o Mac SE: Ditto. o Mac Classic: NEW! Replaces Mac Plus and SE. Compact Mac case. 8 Mhz 68000 CPU. No Expansion slots. 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. 9" b/w screen. 1 meg RAM, FDHD: $999 2 meg RAM, FDHD, 40 meg HD: $1499 o Mac Portable: The "luggable" Mac. Good for weightlifters. 16 Mhz CMOS 68000 CPU. One 68000 PDS. Internal Modem slot. 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. Built-in power supply from hell. 640x400 Active Matrix LCD Screen. (needs backlighting!) External Monitor port (with addition of adaptor unit). Price? Same as it ever was... o Mac LC: NEW! Low cost color Mac. "Pizza-box" case. 16 Mhz 68020 CPU. No FPU. No PMMU. One '020 PDS. Built-in 8-bit Sound sampling. Mike included. Built-in 8-bit color. (You add the monitor) 2 meg RAM, FDHD, 40 meg HD: $2499 [limited availability until January...] o Mac SE/30: Same old beastie we all know and love. Compact Mac case 16 Mhz 68030 CPU. FPU. One '030 PDS. 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. 9" b/w screen. (You can get a color card and ext. monitor) Price? Same as it ever was... If the IIcx goes, this will be the "oldest" Mac. Woo! o Mac II: Dead, Dead, Dead. o Mac IIx: Pushin' up daisies. o Mac IIcx: Rumor has it this one's toast. Here's the stats anyways: Mid-High-end compact modular Mac. Compact modular case. 16 Mhz 68030 CPU. FPU. 3 NuBus slots. 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. Add your own video card. Price? Same as it ever was... o Mac IIsi: NEW!! Low-end high-performance Mac. "slim" IIci-style case. 20 Mhz 68030 CPU. One '030 PDS/Nubus slot. 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. Built-in 8-bit Sound sampling. Mike included. Built-in 8-bit color. (You add the monitor) 2 meg RAM, FDHD, 40 meg HD: $3700. o Mac IIci: High-end Compact Modular Mac. Compact Modular case. 25 Mhz 68030 CPU. FPU. 3 NuBus slots. Memory Cache slot. 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. Built-in 8-bit color. (You add the monitor) Price? Same as it ever was... o Mac IIfx: THE Big, High-End Mac. (Till the '040 Mac). Big Modular case. 40 Mhz 68030 CPU. FPU. 32k SRAM Cache. DMA Controller. (MacOS doesn't take advantage of it). 2 Custom I/O processors. (Same here) 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. Optional Parity support. Burst mode RAM access. 6 NuBus slots. One '030 PDS. Get your own video card and monitor. Price? IIfx - Too F*ing eXpensive. Notes and Acronyms: PDS: Processor Direct Slot. Fast, but CPU/Machine specific. NuBus: A standard expansion architecture. But slow @ 10 Mhz. FPU: 68882 Floating Point Unit (Math Coprocessor). DMA: Direct Memory Access. Fast, fast, fast. PMMU: Paged Memory Management Unit. Needed for virtual memory. Built into the 68030. Can be added to 68020. Can't use w/ 68000. FDHD: Floppy Drive High Density. SuperDrive. (1.44 Meg 3.5" drive) RAM: You better know what RAM is by now. SRAM: Static RAM. Fast! CMOS: A material for making low-power consumption CPUs. Sorta. o Hey, once the Plus and SE are gone, all Macs will have stereo sound. o Also, most will have 32-bit clean ROMs. o And, all but the Portable and Classic can have color monitors. o I tried to list the Macs by "performance" levels... Sources: MacWEEK, MacWorld, MacUser, PC Week, Info World, Usenet, and ZMAC (MacWEEK's Compuserve forum) Disclaimer: I don't work for Apple. I haven't hunted through any garbage cans. It's all lies. Damn lies. -=- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jim Gaynor - The Ohio State Univ. - IRCC - Facilities Mgmt. - OCES <whew!> | | Email [gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu], [gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu] | |_ "Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl; because it hurts like hell..." _|
drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) (10/10/90)
In article <5467@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: > o Mac IIx: Pushin' up daisies. Make that "Clawing at the inside of its coffin." I'm told that there will still be one configuration of the IIx available, at least to universities, although I'm not sure which configuration that is. In article <5467@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: > o Mac IIsi: NEW!! Low-end high-performance Mac. "slim" IIci-style case. > 20 Mhz 68030 CPU. One '030 PDS/Nubus slot. > 8-bit, 4-channel stereo sound. > Built-in 8-bit Sound sampling. Mike included. > Built-in 8-bit color. (You add the monitor) > 2 meg RAM, FDHD, 40 meg HD: $3700. The motherboard has a connector for a slot adaptor, which is what you plug in to decide whether your slot will be NuBus or a PDS. Both versions of the slot adaptor include an FPU. David Gutierrez drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
spot@TR5.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) (10/17/90)
What is the word on expanding a Mac LC to have a pmmu and/or fpu? are there sockets on the motherboard? I'm concerned about System 7.0. ** please reply via email; I don't read this newsgroup. ** Consume Scott Draves Be Silent spot@cs.cmu.edu Die