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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!liuida!isy!isy!ingemar
- From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
- Subject: Re: February's batch of new Macs
- Message-ID: <ingemar.722272458@isy>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
- References: <1992Nov19.030031.15434@netcom.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:14:18 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
-
- >+ Macintosh Centris 610: 20MHz stripped-down 68040 (no on-chip math
- >+ Macintosh Centris 650: 25MHz 68040 (same as Quadra 700), IIvx case,
- >+ Macintosh Quadra 800: 33MHz 68040, one 040 Processor Direct slot, 3
-
- This sounds good, but will they be cheap enough to compete with the
- 486 clones? Will I get a 610 for what a IIvx costs today?
-
- >+ Macintosh LC III: Identical to the LC and LC II except for a 25MHz
- >68030 and a 32-bit data path.
-
- This one might be really good as a home Mac, as long as it isn't crippled
- some other way. I can stand 16 MHz bus in this case - though it was a
- horible crippling of the IIvx. (The LC III should, even with a slower bus,
- still be much faster than the LC/LCII and most of the time faster than IIsi.)
-
- >+ Color Classic: a 16MHz Classic II with color.
-
- I thought this would be 25 MHz 32-bit, sharing the architecture with the
- LC III? The 16 MHz 16-bitters must go, they are too far behind today.
- The color Classic can become a nice low-end color Mac, but only if it has
- decent performance and is dirt cheap at the same time.
-
- >Apple wants to move its product line up to the 040 to stay competitive
- >with 486 machines, and to handle additions such as QuickTime,
- >QuickDraw GX, and OCE (Open Collaboration Environment).
-
- They have to. The 486's are just Messdos-PC's, but they have dropped so
- incredibly far down the last year so it's getting hard to motivate
- a Mac (despite the price cuts and slightly improved price/performance
- of IIvx and P600). Apple must follow *now*, and a lot more than they
- already have. Sadly, the quality will probably suffer.
-
- --
- Ingemar Ragnemalm
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
- ..
- University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
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