Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!franny.Berkeley.EDU!c8s-an From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SE question Message-ID: <17935@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 05:13:17 GMT References: <1989Oct2.050037.28499@aucs.uucp> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 In article <1989Oct2.050037.28499@aucs.uucp> 850181f@aucs.UUCP (S. Ferguson-Parker) writes: >Is there *any* (speed etc.) difference between an old SE with the 800Kb >drives and the new SE with the 1.44Mb drives (outside of the space :-)? The only difference is related to the drives. There is the new SWIM chip that the Superdrives need, and therefore System 6.0.3 is recommended due to fixes in the timing Manager or somesuch. > The reason I ask is that Apple Canada is having a special event and they >list the price difference between these machines as almost $1000. An >interesting note is that the price of the external FDHD is $614. Does >that make any sence to anyone? Since I am about to buy one of these >things, a quick reply via e-mail would be appreciated. The probable reason that Apple Canada is having the special deal is that they want to get rid of these 800K floppy-SEs. Nothing more, nothing less. By the way, the suggested retail for an external Superdrive is $629 in the U.S., and that comes with the measly warranty. >Steven E. Ferguson-Parker Acadia Univ. School of Computer Science --- Alex UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!franny!c8s-an INTERNET: c8s-an%franny.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu FIDONET: Alex.Lau@bmug.fidonet.org (1:161/444)