![]() 64 GB of RAM is sufficient for me for now, but I am looking to see a 128 GB option for around $1,200 within two years of owning the machine based on how my need for memory has grown in the past.Īpple does claim an I/O throughput on flash to be around 1250 MB/s, which is better than my RAID 1+0 four disk SATA SSD RAID in my Mac Pro and faster than my first-generation PCIe Accelsior OWC card.Īpple mentions up to 2×6 GB of dedicated video RAM, which significantly beats the 1-3 GB cards we’ve had on the market until now. Happily, four 16 GB DIMMs is a lot less-around $1,200. The total price for four 32 GB DIMMs currently runs about $10,000 from B&H. It’s not clear this form factor will ever support dual CPU packages or 8 DIMM slots (it seems it might only have 4 sockets). It seems that they cut their pricing on 100 Mbit connections. ![]() At some point, the modem went away and we were modemless for a number of years, but one day he brought home an extra 1200 baud modem he had at his office and I spent hours sorting out the Hayes AT command set to get it to work–a lot of registers had to be set on that modem it wasn’t just a simple matter of ATDT555-1212. At one point, my dad had the system “maxed out” with an Apple 300 baud modem, an external floppy drive, and the ImageWriter I printer. I spent hours goofing off in MacDraw and MS Basic. Yet there was something deeply magical about computing in that era. Even the headphone port on the 128 was mono, if I recall correctly. A 1mb Mac Plus was a significantly better computer, especially if you had an external hard disk that conveniently fit under the Mac–thus increasing speed, storage capacity, and the height of the monitor. Only one program could run at a time–no Multi-Finder. MacWrite didn’t have a spell check or much of anything else. ![]() Almost no software worked on it, since it was outdated almost immediately with the Mac 512. There were lots of frustrating things about the Mac 128. The screen stopped working in 1993, and it hadn’t been reliable at that point for a number of years–my dad upgraded to a pair of Mac Pluses when they came out and then later he upgraded again to the Mac II. My parents bought a Mac 128K in 1984 (pictured below). ![]()
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