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To: Alomex who wrote (22174)	1/11/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

"latest decision of not having SCSI port on a machine designed for a user base with large number of SCSI devices, Apple comes across as rude, even if the decisions were technologically sound..." The 400MHz config comes with Ultra2 SCSI. For other configurations, SCSI cards (which are dirt cheap these days) can be added in less than 60 seconds. PCI SCSI 2 cards costs just $50 at the AppleStore. Even though I have 4 SCSI devices myself, I rather go out and buy a $50 card than to make the 1+ million people who are expected to buy G3 Pro over the next few quarters pay $20-$30 to have Apple build SCSI onboard. The price delta between these two options is really only $20. As availability of USB, FireWire devices increase over the next few month this will become even less of an issue. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to keep SCSI on a motherboard architecture that we'll be keeping for months to come. Most of the PCs on the Wintel side never had SCSI onboard in the first place. At some point we need to shed away old technology gracefully. Eric