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- From: andrem@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feg 10th
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 21:10:20 GMT
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- oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek) wrote:
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- >Michael J McNaughty (mjm4@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- [some stuff deleted]
- >: I have a question. If you have a Mac LC, and Apple offers an upgrade path
- >: to the LCIII (Please!!!) will this allow the upgraded mac to have the
- >: same RAM expansion option to 36MB? Only having a 10MB max thanks to those
- >: wonderful ROMs is really disappointing.
- > The 10 MB's limit isn't imposed by the ROMs, it's a limit of the motherboard
- > designe.
-
- The 10MB limit *is* imposed by the ROMs. On the original LC you wouldn't
- be able to exceed the limit (2 MB motherboard RAM + 2 * 4 MB SIMMS = 10 MB).
- However, on the LCII you should be able to get to 12 MB, since it has 4 MB
- soldered to the motherboard - but try it and you'll find the machine can
- only access 10 MB.
-
- I too am anxiously awaiting the upgrade offer. However, somehow I just
- don't believe the $500 price quoted in MacWeek. In the past it seems that
- the cost of upgrading was something like 60-70% of the purchase price of
- the new Mac. Please, Apple, prove me wrong!
-