egad...if listmom reads all those cracks we're hooped!!!!
Sorry women members of the group...we're just foolin' around...8>)
Tim wrote:
-snip-
> Anyway, being a dealer, I recall having dabbled with several new Mac
>models, some of which have been maligned. Not recalling the
>exact order these came out, though, I do remember having a Color Classic
>and a IIvx before I upgraded from the IIvx to the Centris 650. At
>the time, I really wasn't aware of any "legacy" brick walls with the CC
>and IIvx. I just saw them as being reasonably priced and having a
>purpose in a home or other lower-end environment. If I recall, you could
>install up to 68MB of RAM in the IIvx, which was a lot more than
>you thought you'd need anytime soon. In fact, I had 24MB in the Centris
>650 for years before it was retired for a PowerTower Pro, later
>joined by an iMac and a Cube.
-snip-
VERY good point about 'needing more ram'.
Ram is the key to a lot of the pleasure/pain derived from one's computer.
As MacOS and applications become more intricate and ram hungry, the
shortcomings
of a weak motherboard design become more glaring whereas the better designs
stand up
.
One thing with the Vx, and many other models, is that in limiting the
number of slots
it made it tougher to upgrade in small doses if your pocketbook was limited.
Robert had 4 16's in his 2Vx, but that cost a ton in those days, especially
when
you HAD to upgrade 4 simms at a time.
With the 2Ci you could add 4 x 4's twice and be happy as a clam.
Quite a while ago I set my mom up with a Color Classic, which was cute as a
button and fit her
kitchen table perfectly. Adding 2 x 4's to the onboard 4 gave her a grand
total of.....10mb!
That was it for maxing out the ram, and fortunately it was enough to gain
her a pretty decent
email machine and solitaire partner.
It's oddities like that, however, that bug me when it comes to setting up
older machines for
people who wouldn't or couldn't afford to run out and buy a new computer.
A good case in point, so to speak, is the PowerCenter series. Based on the
7200 'catalyst' mobo, the PowerCenter (Curve, Tower and Pro variants
included) expanded on the basic mobo design to provide us with computers
which are still worthy companions.
The 4 ram slot configuration is less of a limitation than in the past
because they can be filled one at a time, and it's less frustrating having
to dump
say , an 8 mb module for a 32 than 4 x 4mb modules for 4 x 16's as in the
past.
But Apple left it to others (thank goodness there were other) to fully
develop the potential
of the 7200, leaving it's own customers stranded on the beaches while
PowerComputing buyers souped up their funny cars with upgradeable CPU's and
all sort's of computer gingus.
I still favor the 'tsunami' board (PowerWave and PTP), however, for the 8
available slots, although with 128's running $30-$40 that's becoming a moot
point....
-snip-
>I suppose someday people will be speaking ill of my Cube, but I will
>always think of it as both an engineering wonder and a work of art. If
>only I could quiet-down those 3 10,000 RPM Ultra-SCSI drives in the
>PowerTower Pro, I would have no complaints about it. Anyway, I think
>the Cube may have been Job's wake-up call that not everything he touches
>will turn to gold (at least as far as the marketplace in general
>is concerned).
-snip-
It's hard to compare the Cube to any other computer...it's that
unique...and unique is what
we've come to expect from Apple...and find disappointing when not delivered.
-snip-
>So if the IIvx showed the market that Apple was listening and creating new
>models at lower prices, was that so bad? Even if the astute
>person knew that the technology was essentially the same as a IIci,
>perhaps many did not (nor really care). Granted, you would have wanted
>Apple to move a little faster, but maybe this was the first step in
>turning the big tanker around.
-snip-
reminds me of the old Exxon Valdez joke..."I said 'Tanqueray' on the rocks,
you idiot!"
Cheers...Michael
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