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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple's 512->Plus upgrade
Message-ID: <878@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 88 20:13:10 GMT
References: <8400015@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: SUNY Oswego
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In article <8400015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>   With all the recent talk of incompatabilities, I wonder if it is worth
>the extra money to have apple do the 512k -> macplus upgrade.
>

In our office we have a Mac Plus and a 512k upgraded by Apple to be a Plus.
We have never seen any incompatibilities: they're functionally identical.
Now, as for the price of upgrading, that's debatable.  Through the University
Purchase Plan here, we can buy a new Plus for $1149, while upgrading a
512 costs about $900....(-: we bought our 512 a month before the Plus came out
and got a 50% discount on the upgrade at that time :-)

If you take a "street" price for the Plus at, say $1300, then that means your
512 is only worth $400.  Even so, I'd try to sell my 512 and buy a new Plus 
instead of upgrading - remember those power supply problems...?

I have a 512E at home - if I ever decide to upgrade, I'll either just add
memory (no SCSI) myself or get rid of it and buy something newer.

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