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- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.212923.10358@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
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- References: <1992Sep6.150552.1717@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:29:23 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Sep6.150552.1717@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
- >I am trying to convince a friend of mine to purchase the LC II (price
- >considerations here). I am aware of its limitations, but there is one
- >thing I am not clear on.
- > How can you get a LC II to 10 megs of real RAM? I know that
- >it has 2 simm slots, and it has 4 megs on board (the original LC had
- >only 2 megs on board). But with a ceiling of 10 megs, how can it be
- >reached with waste?
- > 4-megs on board + 2 1-meg simms = 6 megs
- > 4-megs on board + 2 2-meg simms = 8 megs
- > 4-megs on board + 2 4-meg simms = 12 megs (2 megs wasted!!!)
- >
- >None of these configurations work! So, fill me in guys: do I have to
- >waste 2 megs to get 10 megs, or is 10 megs exactly unattainable on
- >the LC II?
- > (or I wrong about it having 4 megs on board? and 2 of
- >these are just simms? So you 2 4-meg simms for exactly 10 megs?)
-
- You are right that the LCII has 4MB RAM soldered onto the motherboard.
- There's no way to get exactly 10MB without wasting 2MB. However, even
- if you buy 4MB SIMMS and waste the 2MB, you may be paying less for each
- *effective* MB of RAM you're getting than with 2MB SIMMS. In other
- words, if you can get two 4MB SIMMS for less than what three 2MB SIMMS
- would cost, you're still paying less per megabyte even if you don't
- count the 2MB you'll be "wasting." I'm not sure if that will occur at
- today's prices, but I would guess that 4MB SIMM prices are dropping
- faster than 2MB SIMM prices. Also, the 4MB SIMMS will be worth
- more in the future if you ever want to sell them or move them to another
- machine.
-
- --
- Steve Kanefskyy
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