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- Subject: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:06:04 -0700
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Brigham Young University
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- I have heard the rumors that one of the new up-coming machines Apple will soon
- be releasingis a 20 MHz 040 machine, but WITHOUT the fpu on board. Is this
- true? If it is then WOE unto us, my brethren! Apple must be going the way of
- Intel faster and faster! Does this mean that Apple will soon sell you a
- 68883 "math-coprocessor" a la Intel's 487, which in fact is a fully functional
- 486 chip which effectively wrests control of the motherboard from the 486SX?
- I really HATE (read in to this statement as much disgust as you can dream of)
- companies that intentioanlly CRIPPLE their cpus in an attempt to please their
- marketing a-holes. I know a company needs to make a profit to survive, and I
- am not averse to paying a fair price for a product, but CRIPPLING a product
- is just too much! That would be funny to see Motorola come up with a 68883
- which was just a fully functional 040 to provide buyers of this machine with
- a "math-coprocessor." I understand (sort of) them making a IIsi 20 MHz so that
- it wouldn't hurt the IIci's sales, and I understand also why they made the LC
- a 16-bit bus machine, so as to prove that it truly was a low-end mac. What I
- just can't fathom is WHY they made the IIvx a 16-bit bus machine?!? I just
- don't know. I have high hopes every time Apple releases new machines, and it
- seems that they disappoint way too often. It's as if they are afraid that as
- soon as they come out with a FAST machine for a low price they will never
- sell a high-end machine again. Maybe they were too worried that if they made
- the IIvx a full 32-bit bus machine nobody would buy Q-700s anymore. (I doubt
- it) If anybody has figured those Apple marketing types out yet, please let me
- know, as I just can't understand their logic. I personally would LOVE to buy
- a machine that had maybe just one expansion slot (I have a IIsi, and apart
- from an fpu and a cache have not used the slot for anything at all yet), a
- small, trim, case, just 4 simm sockets, etc., just like the low-end machines
- they have out now, but with a full 32-bit bus and maybe a 20 or 25 MHz 040,
- but Apple's marketing types would NEVER let it happen.
-
- -Seth Leigh
- BYU Physics Dept.
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