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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alomex who wrote (23300)	3/1/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

>Gouge the customers with high prices, force them to upgrade with no simple backward compatibility path, Apple ][ --> Mac, 5" floppy -> 3 1/2 floppy, SCSI -> USB, anyone?< Piling on, no? $1600 for a G3 300 with USB and FireWire is pretty reasonable. Actually this has driven down the price of fast and wide SCSI cards from $300+ to $105. If you still need a 5" floppy, I'm sure we can work something out. --------------------- Doren, Overall, a good post but a somewhat flawed premise. IMO, it does not make sense to upgrade unless you're getting a performance pop of at least 100%. If FPU is what you need, then yes -- wait for the G4. But note the 300/G3 sells for $1600 -- or 40% less than the 9600. For the 10% more you can get the 400 mhz. Try Explorer 4.X with MRJ 2.1 (or iCab, which is neat) and report back. Currently, I'm running those as well as Communicator. I try to dissaude people from purchasing internal Zips for the same reason. Because bad cartridges ruin drives, I would particularly disrecommend them in a lab environment. You shouldn't upgrade, considering what you're upgrading from. I sold a pair of 300mhz G3s yesterday. Both to couples who will be running Photoshop and MS Office. Both were upgrading from PPC 601s. That means a MacBench score increase from 125 to over 1000. Both are getting internal Apple modems ($139); one is getting a DVD and the other an Adaptec f/w SCSI ($105) for use with Jaz and scanner. [BTW, Both couples are fixing up the older units and giving them to family members as home office/internet stations.] >IDE drives are a less robust standard than SCSI -- back up early and often. [That 400mhz machine for $3000 also comes with the 9G LVD drive and capacity for (3) IBM 36G drives.] USB is meant to replace ADB and Serial. Firewire is designed to replace SCSI. Overall, the people who should be upgrading are those with 5 year old first-generation PPCs where the performance increase is 500-1000%. People who do their homework and have reasonable expectations are getting good value. They will likely own these machines for as long as the ones they replaced. PS> I'm piggybacking this because when I tried to reply directly to Doren's post, it breaks my connection (!?) PPS> When I deleted Doren's orginal comments it seems to take OK.