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- From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: February's batch of new Macs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.163601.1142@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:36:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.025924.15241@netcom.com>
- Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
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- In article <1992Nov19.025924.15241@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
- >
- >Here's a rundown of the new Macs due out on Febuary 15, 1993,
- >according to stuff I read in a recent MacLeak -- er, MacWeek.
- >Remember that all this is only rampant rumor subject to my typoes,
- >and may bear no semblance whatsoever to reality.
- >
- >The Quadra 700, Mac IIsi, and Mac LC II will be removed from the
- >lineup. In their place will come the Centris 610, Centris 650, Quadra
- >800, Mac LC III, and Color Classic.
- >
- >+ Macintosh Centris 610: 20MHz stripped-down 68040 (no on-chip math
- >coprocessor, but it'll still perform 70% better than a 33MHz 030
- >machine), "Fat LC" case, one expansion slot that will fit either a
- >NuBus card or an 040 Processor Direct card, 4Mb RAM permanently on the
- >motherboard, two SIMM slots, up to 16-bit color on a 16" display or
- >8-bit color on a two-page display.
-
- *Two* SIMM slots??! Is this machine going to use a 16-bit bus??!!
-
-
- >+ Macintosh Centris 650: 25MHz 68040 (same as Quadra 700), IIvx case,
- >one 040 Processor Direct slot, two NuBus slots (not 3 like the IIvx),
- >4Mb RAM permanently on the motherboard, four SIMM slots, built-in
- >Ethernet, same display capabilities as the Centris 610. There will be
- >an upgrade available for IIvx owners to this machine.
-
- Is that 1 bank of four slots (i.e., 32-bit bus) or 2 banks of 2 slots?
-
- Is this new Centris line going to be the 68040/crippled line? Hell, Apple
- has even bumped the LC up to a 32-bit bus...
-
- >+ Macintosh LC III: Identical to the LC and LC II except for a 25MHz
- >68030 and a 32-bit data path.
-
-
- --
- J. S. Greenfield greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
- (I like to put 'greeny' here,
- but my d*mn system wants a
- *real* name!) "What's the difference between an orange?"
-