Jim.Bethin@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Bethin) (02/15/90)
I have only read one desperate note about Mac IIci hard disk failures (80 Meg). Is this a (quiet) rampant plague? A friend is thinking of cancelling his order & reordering w/o the Apple internal 80 Meg. Thanks. -- Jim Bethin via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!107!563!Jim.Bethin INET: Jim.Bethin@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG
bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter) (02/18/90)
In article <41717.25DC22AF@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Jim.Bethin@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Bethin) writes: >I have only read one desperate note about Mac IIci hard disk failures (80 >Meg). Is this a (quiet) rampant plague? A friend is thinking of >cancelling his order & reordering w/o the Apple internal 80 Meg. Thanks. I bought a IIci without HD and 1 meg of memory because it was a better deal to get them from a third party. Right now you can get a Quantum 105 meg for around $650 and 4 megs of RAM for about $250. The warrenty on the drive is 3 years (compared to 90 days from Apple). Bruce Burkhalter
philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (02/20/90)
In article <22222@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter) writes: > In article <41717.25DC22AF@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Jim.Bethin@f563.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Bethin) writes: > >I have only read one desperate note about Mac IIci hard disk failures (80 > >Meg). Is this a (quiet) rampant plague? A friend is thinking of > >cancelling his order & reordering w/o the Apple internal 80 Meg. Thanks. > > I bought a IIci without HD and 1 meg of memory because it was a better deal to > get them from a third party. Right now you can get a Quantum 105 meg for around > $650 and 4 megs of RAM for about $250. The warrenty on the drive is 3 years > (compared to 90 days from Apple). I second this. You can easily save $300, and end up with 5M of RAM / 105M hard disk, instead of 4M/80HD. Also, note previous discussions about 5M machines tending to be faster (if the built-in video is used). Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu