31 Jan
1999
31 Jan
'99
5:57 a.m.
Sam Wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
Yes. The side flips down and the motherboard and cards are attached to
the side panel. It looks incredibly easy to work on.
I hate to say it, but this shows you're not a SERIOUS Mac-Head. I can live
without the floppy, but not having serial ports on the Professional Model
is CRIMINAL! Just where am I supposed to plug that $500 Graphics Tablet I
bought three months ago? At least they included a ADB port, which is
probably their way of admitting that the keyboard and mouse that is ships
with SUCK!
Things they did Right:
10/100Base-T (I had to add 100Base-T to my 8500/180)
Top of the line model has UW SCSI
ADB Port
Good Graphics Card with plenty of memory
USB
Things they did Wrong:
No Floppy (Yes, if you think back I said this was good for the iMac)
No Serial Ports <-- Someone really should be shot! Someone buying
this
to replace a high end system is likely to have
some expensive peripherals they don't want to have
to replace or buy a serial card for.
Undecided:
Firewire
The "New Look" <-- For a professional system it doesn't look very
professional, but then I guess they're targeting
the
art market.
Having said that, I need to start saving my money up I think. I want one
of the high-end model, and will have to add another 128Mb, Serial Ports,
and maybe a floppy drive. Or, I can just be smart and buy a G3 accelerator
for my existing setup.
Actually a LS120 would probably be the way to go, and should be an option.
On an interesting note I just looked at the build to order web page to
double check on the LS120 and found the following note
"Note: The Ultra SCSI PCI card and the DVD-RAM drive are planned
to be available in February. The three 36GB Ultra2 SCSI drives
with dual-channel SCSI PCI card and Gigabit Ethernet PCI card
are planned for March."
Looks like if you want one and can afford the extra's waiting until about
March might be a good idea.
Zane
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