Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SOLARVAX.UMD.EDU!Allon.Stern From: Allon.Stern@SOLARVAX.UMD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: SE vs. Plus Message-ID: <8908181824.AA23766@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 18 Aug 89 19:26:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18 In message <3943@phri.UUCP> Roy Smith says: > What I want to know is why anybody would buy an SE? For $800 or so > (after the $300 price drop) more than a Plus you get exactly the same > processor, an expansion slot that will probably never be used, and the > ability to have an internal hard drive (convenient, but certainly not > something which improves the machine substantially). With the new SEs, you > also get a marginally better floppy drive (BFD). Get a Plus and use the > money you save over the SE to buy a good printer, more memory, and/or a > bigger/faster disk drive, any of which will substantially improve the > system. Uh, doesn't the SE have newer ROMs than the Plus? (i.e. 256K rather than 128K) - -= Allon =- -