Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU!krb20699 From: krb20699@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("A sleep.") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New IIgs PRESS RELEASE!!! Message-ID: <8908160445.AA24331@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 04:45:19 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 No wonder my dealer is taking a month to get Sys 5.0, he had to figure out what to do with the new GSs. It should only take him another couple'a months more...{= As I see it, there is only one way to upgrade to the ROM 3 GS. Sell your ROM 1/2 machine for less than half the price of the new ROM 3 CPU. So for a logic board, and 256K more ROM, I pay $500. I only use my GS for college work, and one or two (*cough*) games, possibly in the future a lot of programming. I have no real NEED for the new ROM 3 CPU, but like everyone going to GS/OS v3.0, it's a nice improvement. I could stand to pay the money to reimburse the new logic board and 256K of ROM in trade with my ROM 2 GS, but apparently not even this is possible. First, the IIe was able to go to Enhanced IIe with a $99 package, the enhanced IIe to a GS for $500 (half price,) and now from GS to GS ROM 3 for $500. There's NOT $500 worth of improvement!!! I don't mean to drown out Apple's work to get System 5.0 out early, or the famed "GS+," but this lack of an upgrade package rubs me the wrong way. My 90-day warranty is out on my GS...is there anything a soldering gun couldn't handle? {= I tried... Ken. krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu {Internet}