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- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.143023.16072@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:30:23 GMT
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- heilmayr@jaffna.berkeley.edu (Stephan Heilmayr) 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?
-
- Well the pair are billed as the replacement for the IIsi and IIci.
- Both come is a case similar to the size of a IIci with 3 NuBus Slots,
- and on-board video. The IIvi is the low priced one, but will have only a
- 16MHz '030 (anyone remember the IIcx?) and the IIvx will have a 33MHz
- '030 and a cache card. If you wait, you will probably be able to get a
- IIvi for about the same price as the IIsi, but the IIsi is a bit faster,
- less expandable and available for you today. But you aren't going to
- find that "bigger-better-stronger-faster" computer for less than the
- price of the IIsi, the IIvx will undoubtedly be more expensive probaby
- in the $2500 - $3000 range depending on the size of the HD.
-
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