Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Plus ?? Summary: My hard drive is only slightly slower than an SE internal Message-ID: <1282@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 23:00:58 GMT References: <508NETOPRRW@NCSUVM> <771@husc6.harvard.edu> <401920b8.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 26 In article <401920b8.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger) writes: >Suffice to say, the Platinum Plus will work >with any hard drive that the SE will. But the SE will do so more than >50% faster. > > Steve Bollinger billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu Huh? I've got a Mac Plus (platinum, born February 1988) with an external Everex EMAC-20DL hard disk. My roommate has a Mac SE with Apple's internal hard disk. We tested the machines for speed differences. We put the same several-page long Microsoft Word document on each disk and then opened it at the same time. The SE beat the Plus only by 3 seconds. That's probably average for most routine operations. I maintain a lab on campus with twenty hard-disk equipped Mac SEs. They don't seem to work noticably faster than my Mac Plus. Rumors once called for the phase-out of the Plus. But didn't Apple just retool its factory to build Plus's cheaper? Doesn't sound like something a company would do right before discontinuing a product. John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Project Specialist / Computing Center / 494-9944