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- From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: New IIvx and IIvi...why on EARTH 16mhz?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.214804.13720@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 21:48:04 GMT
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- In <1992Aug15.025007.26454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
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- >Just to add to the anarchy here on the IIvx and IIvi (and which processor
- >which one uses), I've heard 32mhz and 16mhz....my question is: Why on EARTH
- >would Apple goto a 16mhz chip...I'd think the MINIMUM they'd use would be
- >20mhz!
-
- Go to? The now defunct PowerBook 140 used a 16MHz 68030 chip, this isn't
- anything new.
- Why they want to STAY with it is another story. I think it is fair to say
- that a 16MHz 68030 is cheap enough to allow Apple to offer a Mac II with a
- more attractive price. This was part of the reasoning behind the IIsi.
-
- -Geoff
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- geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business
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