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- From: geoff.peters@p99.f828.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Geoff Peters)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: So which new machine?
- Message-ID: <afee91f0@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 23:48:49 GMT
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- Original to: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
- Jason Braddy wrote:
- jb> I'm getting a might bit frustrated, as I am trying to decide what my
- jb> first computer should be. I was thinking of the IIvx CD, but now I'm
- jb> wondering. Before the vx came out, I was going to get an LCII 4/160.
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- David Gutierrez replied:
- dg> If you're willing to wait until January or February, you might want an
- dg> LC III. I believe it's essentially a IIci in an LC case. That's a
- dg> 25MHz 68030 with a 25 MHz 32-bit bus. I don't know if it includes an
- dg> FPU or not. Expandability should be limited in a case that size, but
- dg> it should be very cheap.
-
- Oh yes, the LC Lite (or the Performa 250). Sad little machine that's going
- to be.
-
- The processor will be a (possibly customised) 25MHz '030 in a pizzabox, but
- its going to suffer the same slow board clock speed problems the IIvx has,
- even if it does have a 32-bit wide data bus.
-
- Not only that, the machine will be using a 40Mb IDE hard drive (no SCSI
- port) and there will not be any LocalTalk either.
-
- About the only benefit will be that Apple plans to market the LC Lite, with
- a display, for under US$1,000.
-
-
- Geoff
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