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From: krb20699@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("A sleep.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: New IIgs PRESS RELEASE!!!
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Date: 16 Aug 89 04:45:19 GMT
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     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}