Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Printer advice needed Message-ID: <3943@phri.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 12:34:03 GMT References: <36400005@hpindwa.HP.COM> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 25 In <36400005@hpindwa.HP.COM> sgordon@hpindwa.HP.COM (Shaun Gordon) writes: > I am trying to put together an SE system for my parents and am looking for > a low cost alternative to buying an Imagewriter II. 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. Shaun, I'm not flaming you specifically, but I'm always amazed when people spec SEs because they want "something better than a Plus" but don't really have any idea what the differences between the two machines are. Considering that it probably costs Apple about the same to make a Plus and an SE, they must be really raking it in on the SE. No wonder they want to loose the Plus, but it's a product that is too successful for its own good. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"