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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 145 2/80
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.172604.4659@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:26:04 GMT
- References: <1683BFF99.UC572722@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <1992Aug9.165323.15098@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <GERLACH.92Aug13092043@greyrock.greyrock.mso.colostate.edu>
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- gerlach@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (Scott Gerlach) writes:
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- >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.
-
- You want to be able to get a machine with the base memory
- configuration, which for the PowerBooks is 2mb (its on the motherboard)
- so that you can get your own memory upgrade, and not have to deal with
- the extra cost that Apple tacks on to the price for putting extra memory
- in the machine. As an example, here at Dartmouth a 170 2/80 costs $3350
- and the 4/80 costs $3520, a difference of $170. According to the latest
- MacWEEK the going price for the 2M upgrade card for PowerBooks is $100.
- Thus you would save $70.
- As an added example the price of the 4M upgrade is $179, which means
- you could have a 6M PowerBook for basically the same price as the 4 M
- PowerBook that you would be purchacing. And even if you took it to an
- Apple Tech to install itthe memory for you, you would probably only have
- to pay him $25 or so, and still come out ahead, in my book.
- That is why you want to be able to get a PowerBook with just 2M, or
- any Mac with the base memory configuration. Of course there is also the
- matter of upgrading later, what do you do with the extra memory that you
- took out to put more in? There are really only a couple of places that
- will take memory as a trade in.
-
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