--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have a Q700 yourself or a IIci?
I've got both. The Q700 is rather limited with RAM
expansion because
it only has 4 simm slots to fill. Considering the
fact that it is
very hard to get 8 mb or higher 30 pin simms for
this model and I'm
not planning to spend any money on memory, I'm stuck
with 20 mb
maximum (that's including the 4 mb on board. The
IIci has 8 simm
slots, allowing 32 mb (8x4 mb).
So it's 3 NuBus slots and 8 SIMM slots VS 2 NuBus
and 4 SIMM. Now why in Job's name would anyone
want a Q700? All it has going for it is the 040 CPU
and built in Ethernet. If you're looking to upgrade
from a fully packed IIci you have to leave off
half your SIMMs and one NuBus card. Not too big a
hurt if one's an Ethernet card. But what if you
have a video card, a video capture card and a SCSI
card like a Jackhammer? That puts the Q700 right
out of contention!
I wish I knew what Apple was thinking when they
hobbled the Q700's expandability like that. :P
Now an 040 in the II/IIx/IIfx case with six NuBus
slots, 16 SIMM slots, built in 24bit video with
dedicated VRAM, built in Ethernet, fast SCSI II,
16bit 44Khz stereo audio in and out, THAT woulda
been a real killer Mac. ;) And it probably would've
cost $10K just like the IIfx did to start with.
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