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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printer advice needed
Message-ID: <13627@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Aug 89 20:33:04 GMT
References: <36400005@hpindwa.HP.COM> <3943@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In article <3943@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	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,

Not necessarily.  I'd say it's more likely for us to see 020+881+PMMU boards
for the SE than for the plus (thus permitting faster operation and VM in
the future).  Granted, this is not necessarily worth the extra $800, but
for some people it might be.

> and the
>ability to have an internal hard drive (convenient, but certainly not
>something which improves the machine substantially).

Also remember internal drives are generally cheaper than external drives.
And the HD-less model comes with two-floppies, not one.

> With the new SEs, you
>also get a marginally better floppy drive (BFD).

Which gives a strong message on the part of Apple that they intend the
FDHD to be the standard in the future, and that they're planning to
phase out 800K drives.  The FDHD might not be important to you, but
other people find it useful (and even necessary).  I do believe, however,
that Apple would encourage this much more by pricing the FDHD upgrade at
a reasonable level.

I think both machines have their niche, and it's a question of value-added
and perception.  If people

-Ivan

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