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- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.103232.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:32:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.051225.2052@leland.Stanford.EDU>, jazzbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scott Raymond Harris) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >>Through mid-October, I can get a Mac IIsi 5/80 for $1572 (bundled with
- >>Word, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, and some other stuff) through
- >>the university. This certainly seems like a good deal in comparison
- >>to standard retail prices. But I would be really annoyed with myself
- >>if I threw out all of this money (which I would have to borrow) only
- >>to find on October 19 that I could get a bigger-better-stronger-faster
- >>IIvi (or IIvx?) for even less money. Does anyone out there have a
- >>sense of how the new Macs will stack up against the IIsi in performance
- >>and features? Any Secret Insider Information would be much appreciated.
- >>Thanks.
- >
- > Yeah, I can get the same deal, but I have to buy in a few weeks:
- > I'm graduating.... I'll be back in school in a year, so I'll be able to
- > get educational discounts in another year. Will a IIsi be a good buy if I
- > plan to sell it in a year or so and move up to a better machine, or are
- > they gonna can the IIsi line?? Are they coming out with any new powerbooks?
- > The IIsi is at the lower limit of the power I need anyway, since
- > I do a lot of engineering and math intensive stuff.
- >
- > Is a $1600 IIsi too good of a deal to pass up, or should I wait and
- > pay retail on a new machine, or maybe get a IIci now?
- >
- > My own theory is that prices on the old machines are gonna drop
- > once the new ones come out and a IIsi to hold me over for a year or two.
- > It might be the most economical in the long run....
- >
- > -Scott Harris
- >
- > Thanks!
- >
- >
- >
- >
- I bought a iisi in July, and paid 3600$ for the computer, a 13"RGB and a
- stylewriter. now I see that I coulld have gotten the same with a LaserWriter
- for the same money. But if I had done that, now I woulld think, well, in a few
- more months, these cool new machines are going to come out. By that point, the
- PowerPC machines will be around the corner, and so I should wait for those...
- I suggest just getting a machine now. Unless you are amazingly rich, there is
- no way to 'keep up' with apple. When I am done paying for this computer (8
- years and counting), it will be as obselete as the 512s are now, if not more
- so, and I'll get another one, whatever the current midrange good-one is. If
- anyhting, get the ci, because it will run software for a little longer than the
- si, because it is more expandabe. You can dump a lot more RAM into it, and it
- can be upgraded to a Quadra700 if you happen across the money for it.
-
- you can't win unless Apple picks you to be the official tester for thier
- current amazomachine.
-
- jamie
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