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- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.211420.264@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 12 Dec 92 21:14:20 -0700
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- In article <1gdb40INNps@morrow.stanford.edu>, Malcolm Pradhan <pradhan@camis.stanford.edu> writes:
- > In article <75489@apple.apple.COM> bill coderre, bc@Apple.COM writes:
- >>Let's cut the bashing and get to the real question:
- >>
- >>What would you like to see in a new technology-leading Mac?
- >>
- >>What's missing from the Quadra 9xx and 7xx?
- >>
- >>And remember, try to keep the price under $7500 for a base unit.
- >
- > Ok:
- >
- > DSP
- > DMA
- > SCSI-2
- > 128K CPU cache
- > More RAM slots (Q700)
- > 2.8 Mb floppy disks
- >
- > On the software side:
- >
- > Memory protection (nuKernel, if it ever gets out..) - it's sad
- > to have such a powerful machine and have it crash because a
- > small programs dies. No I don't want to install AU/X.
- > Multi Threaded support in OS.
- > DSP libraries, and codecs for QuickTime codec acceleration.
- >
- > I know every extra gadget costs money but Macs need to have that extra
- > something (or somethings) to justify their purchase in a PC world,
- > and the Mac GUI isn't going to be able to do it forever.
-
- Ok, here's my version.
- >>What would you like to see in a new technology-leading Mac?
- >>
- >>What's missing from the Quadra 9xx and 7xx?
-
- Well, not enough actually... I want a machine that doesn't have all that
- junk that they have. I don't care about built-in ethernet... I don't care
- about all the extra space in the Q950... All I want is four simm sockets, a
- pds/nubus setup like the IIsi. I like the Quadra built-in video, and since
- it obviates the need _for me_ to have to buy a video card, I would want it in
- my machine. It should be a 33 MHz 040 cpu. That is it. Basically it would be
- a IIsi running a faster, better processor, and with better built-in video. I
- don't need all that extra junk they make you buy when you want a very powerful
- mac. I haven't needed anything extra in my IIsi since I bought it except a
- RAM cache and fpu on a pds adaptor, which I wouldn't need of course with my
- dream machine. I don't do all the high-tech graphics and such that require
- super-dooper graphics cards, and the best sound in and out money can buy, and I
- resent that I am forced to spend thousands of dollars for stuff in a machine
- when I all need is the basics and a faster processor. I have done nicely with
- my 80 meg hard drive, and the need for space for several more drives inside
- my machine just isn't there; I am tempted in the future to get a 300i cd-rom,
- but by that time the external version would be out.
-
- Seth Leigh
- BYU Physics Dept.
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