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- From: nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: SE to SE/30: Worth It?
- Message-ID: <5759@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:44:53 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.120048.15513@husc3.harvard.edu> <BuDpMG.239@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BuDpMG.239@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel) writes:
- >silvers3@husc9.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:
- >
- >>I'm considering upgrading my Mac SE 4/40 to an SE/30 ($799 + $35
- >>installation = SE/30 5/40 in college student mathematics). Is it
- >>worth doing this rather than buying a new LC II or II si or one
- >>of their successors this fall, both in terms of price and future
- >>utility? At some point in the future, for example, I might want to
- >>add a color monitor; would the fact that I would need a card for the
- >I think it is well worth it since the SE/30 is considerably faster than
- >an LCII and even a little faster than the IIsi. On the other hand the
- >SE/30 is no longer made so unless you have a warranty with the upgrade
- >you may not want to do it. The IIsi is slower than dirt unless you
- >put a card in it anyway so I don't think you're losing anything by
- >putting a card in the SE/30 for color.
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- I have an SE/30 + 8 bit vid card, and would not trade it for
- a LCII. You'd also have to make me a pretty good offer to sell me
- a IIsi. Unless you plan to do something that requires a few
- nubus slots (multimedia, etc) the SE/30 is comprable to the IIci
- (yes with the cache card it's faster, but for 90% of everything
- that extra speed is unnecessary), and the IIci goes for roughly
- $3k, academic prices. The upgrade looks like a good deal to me...
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- Nick
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