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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 145 2/80
- Message-ID: <15010@claris.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 22:07:12 GMT
- References: <1683BFF99.UC572722@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <GERLACH.92Aug13092043@greyrock.greyrock.mso.colostate.edu>
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- In article <GERLACH.92Aug13092043@greyrock.greyrock.mso.colostate.edu>, gerlach@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (Scott Gerlach) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Aug9.165323.15098@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) writes:
- >
- > >In <1683BFF99.UC572722@mizzou1.missouri.edu> UC572722@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Matt Skipton) writes:
- >
- > >> Does anyone know if/when Apple is going to release the 145 in a 2/80
- > >>configuration? My schools computer store has partnumbers for 4/40 and
- > >>4/80 configs but they said that Apple hasn't given them a # for a 2/80.
- >
- > >I asked an Apple Rep that very question at MacWorld and he had NO IDEA. I
- > >strongly suggested that they release a 2/80 configuration but who knows if
- > >he has any say on the matter.
- >
- > Why would you want a machine with only 2MB RAM? I don't even use very
- > high-powered software on my Mac, and 4MB is just barely enough.
- > Buying a 2MB PB 145 is like begging to pay for a RAM upgrade within
- > the next 2-6 months. 4MB should be the minimum configuration for all
- > new machines IMHO.
-
- There is only one memory expansion slot in the Power Book, so if you want to
- upgrade to 8 meg, and have four meg, you have to remove a 2-meg card and
- replace it with a six-meg card. If you start with 2 meg, you don't have to
- remove anything--and thereby save the cost of the 2-meg card.
-