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- From: carlson@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (joe carlson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Which is better: 9 or 17?
- Message-ID: <Aug13.181959.47023@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:19:59 GMT
- References: <23436@alice.att.com>
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- In article <23436@alice.att.com>, dsj@alice.att.com (David S. Johnson) writes:
- >
- >
- > Question to the net: What are the pro's and con's of upgrading
- > a 5-Meg Mac IIsi to 17 Meg rather than 9 Meg?
- >
- > The price through MacConnection looks like $260 for 9 Meg
- > and $480 for 17. I'd probably buy the Maxima extension as
- > well in either case, so I could use all 9 (14 of the 17) Meg
- > without turning on 32-bit addressing.
- > ...
- > (Stuff Deleted)
- > ...
- > Any thoughts/suggestions would be welcome.
- >
- > David Johnson
- > dsj@research.att.com
- >
-
- If you can afford to go to 17, do it. Whether you use it now or not, you
- will later. You can always pop those out and use them in your next mac
- also. I've found that if you always go at least as big as you can (HD's, RAM,
- CPU's, etc.) You'll be happier, I promise.
-
- jOe
-