Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!cbnewsk!ech From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SE vs. Plus Message-ID: <871@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> Date: 19 Aug 89 17:10:24 GMT References: <8908181824.AA23766@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 In message <3943@phri.UUCP> Roy Smith says: > What I want to know is why anybody would buy an SE?...Get a Plus and use > the money you save over the SE to buy [other goodies]... From article <8908181824.AA23766@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by Allon.Stern@SOLARVAX.UMD.EDU: > Uh, doesn't the SE have newer ROMs than the Plus? (i.e. 256K rather than 128K) Yes, it does. However, at least through the impending system 7.0, the difference is made up by RAM patches to the ROM. You can take half your $800 savings and use it to give your Plus 4Mb of RAM, which ought to make up for the difference (in SPADES). The SE is also marginally faster than the Plus. However, the speed difference is easily dominated by the seek time on your hard drive. The only reasons I've seen to prefer the SE are the expansion slot (which the original poster didn't plan to use), and the fact that the educational discount price for a SE->SE/30 upgrade is only around $1200. There is no, and likely will never be, a Plus->SE/30 upgrade path, although there are third-party accelerators for the Plus. I recently purchased the SE/30 upgrade. Yes, it screams... =Ned Horvath=