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- From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
- Subject: Re: New LC: faster than 25MHz?
- Message-ID: <ingemar.724074724@isy>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
- References: <1992Dec10.210629.9441@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 11:52:04 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- seanmcd@ac.dal.ca writes:
-
- >I read in the Mac the Knife column of MacWeek that the rumoured LCIII
- >(sorry travis) might be faster than the 25MHz that's been talked about
- >so far -- any ideas?
-
- >Won't this new LC along with the Centris machines squeeze out the IIvx?
- >If the LC is any faster than 25, it's going to beat the IIvx for
- >performance, and the rumoured price is pretty low. Either the new lc
- >is going to be more expensive than projected, or the IIvx/vi are going
- >to drop considerably, like 25%...opinions on how the new lineup will
- >shape up pricewise, where adjustments will have to take place?
-
- Just my opinion: The LC III *needs* to be at least 25 MHz, that is, on
- par with the IIvx, to be competitive for some time (considering PC prices),
- and it has to be cheap. The 68040 must become normal in the mid-level
- range, and the 68030 must go low-cost.
-
- The IIvx will most likely drop some, but it can still be a lot more
- expensive than a LC II, since the LC III will not have more than one slot,
- which will probably not be NuBus.
-
- The future should be the LC III and a comparable Color Classic in the
- bottom line - fast enough to run System 7, which the current low-cost
- Macs aren't - and 040 Macs above that, where the IIvx and IIsi are today,
- price-wise. That's what we should expect, considering what has happened
- on the PC side. Apple has won some percent of the market recently, but
- they must improve price/performance to win more. I bet they are doing that
- gradually, to avoid making old customers too pissed by making their fine Macs
- worthless over night - and to keep the margins up for a little while.
-
- I hope the LC III and Color Classic will be as fast as the rumors say, and
- especially that video access is fast. Lots of users will run games on them.
-
- --
- Ingemar Ragnemalm
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
- ..
- University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
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