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- From: rajiv@athena.mit.edu (Rajiv A Manglani)
- Subject: PERFORA 200, 400, MONITOR
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.205929.3060@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: Macintosh, Performa
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 20:59:29 GMT
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- Yesterday, I was in Lechmere (a department store in Cambridge, MA) doing some
- shopping, and guess what I saw... A delivery was just being made to the
- computer section, consisting of two of the three Performa line of Macintoshes,
- and the new 13" Monitor. Of course, they are really only the LC II and Classic II
- in disguise, but there were are few changes. The Performa 400 now has holes
- on the left side of the case. This lets the dinky speaker sound louder.
- Also, both machines had At Ease, Apple's New Launching utility, installed. But
- there was a control panel that wasn't part of the version of At Ease that was
- shown at MacWorld Expo... it was called "Launcher." Wehn you put items into the
- "Launcher Items" folder in the system folder, they would show up in the control
- panel window. You could then simply click on them to launch them. Users of Now
- Utilities, HandOff-II, or OnCue II, won't have any use for this, but it make the
- finder a little less frightning to children. By the way, the system on both
- machines was version 7.0.1P, and had the System 7 Tuner built in to it. There
- were no other noticiable differences.
- The new 13" monitor, called the "Macintosh Performa 13" Display" is defintely
- somehting to talk about. I hope that it does not replace the current 13" monitor,
- not for reasons concerning the display quality, but becuase it looks terrible!
- When I first saw it, I thought that the Lechmere workers had put some cheap PC
- monitor on the Mac (the display does not bear the Apple logo on the front). The
- case is smaller than the Mac's, and is not a sleek-looking as the Hi-Res RGB
- Display.
- The Lechmere personelle did not have a date as to when they would receive the
- Performa 600, or any other Macintosh items.
-
- Rajiv Manglani
- rajiv@athena.mit.edu
-