Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: //c+ SCC? (was Re: Applefest Report -- Second Hand) Message-ID: <8809200104.aa05275@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 20 Sep 88 05:24:16 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 >Should I buy a IIc+? Wait for the Laptop Mac? both? 1. The Laser 128EX/2 appears to have superior features to the //c+ (you don't suppose Apple will get smart and offer future editions of the //c+ with the 1.4 Mbyte SuperDrive which also reads and writes the 1.44 Mbyte MS-DOS format? Naaahh, a smart move like that would break Apple's streak -- remember this is the company that packed a processor with a 16 Mbyte address space into a closed machine with a maximum memory of 512K). 2. Given Apple's top managment's attitude toward it's II customer base, I'd think you'd give Amiga more than a passing thought. 3. IBM's PS/2 386-laptop (portable model 70 - a luggable perhaps, but the lapMac will NOT be a lightweight) will arrive sooner and if rumors prove out will be by far the more capable machine (even more so in power per dollar terms if compared on a "street price" basis). Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "We have met the enemy and they are us!" Pogo (Walt Kelly)