Re: Live Apple ... the Power Box

[kindall@mail.manual.com (Jerry Kindall)]

In article <35570A68.14914136@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:

> Jerry Kindall writes ...
> > 
> > In article <35554B9F.243F37AA@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
> > 
> > >      2MB of video SGRAM? "Thousands of colors" at 1024 x 768? Specs like
> > > these boil down to the kind of performance one expects from a cheapo S3
> > > Virge board driving a small monitor. The sound "specs" tell us nothing,
> > > which probably means performance on a par with the video.
> > 
> > It's ATI's Rage II chipset, FWIW.
> >
> 
>      It is too bad they did not at least go for 4MB video RAM.
> 
>      Or, much better, go for the 3D Rage Pro set and 8MB with a 17"
> monitor. Go to 64MB SDRAM with 6.5GB HD, price the 266MHz version at
> $1499 and, with decent wavetable sound, you have a pretty attractive
> competitor. 

You're gonna double the RAM, speed-bump the processor, upsize the hard
disk by over 50%, upgrade to a bigger monitor and install a faster video
chipset with more VRAM for $200?

I wonder why Apple didn't think of that... hehe...

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