> With a
>half-GB HDD, which was "stock" with the '630,
Actually the 630 came stock with a 250mb drive. The 631 had the 500mb.
Others in the 63x series had either 250's or 350's.
>I've got to say this was a
>MINIMALLY equipped computer, though the popular functions all seem to be
>there.
>I'm not at all certain how they (Apple) got all that functionality out of the
>clearly limited resources.
That is because, up until OS 8, the Mac OS needed very little to run.
When compared to Windows, the MacOS was AMAZINGLY fast, stable, and
compact. OS 8 changed the RAM requirements because it moved the Mac ROM
from the logic board, to the hard drive (and thus, into RAM when the OS
was running). This caused a spike in the OS RAM requirements. (7.5.5 can
run in 4mb, 7.6 in 8mb but 8.0 jumps to 32mb)
>I do believe
>the typical PC of the time had a larger (14") monitor
IIRC, the entire performa color screen line came a 14" monitor (various
revision, but all were 14... the 630 was probably the Performa Plus
display). So the larger monitor point isn't really valid.
>yet overall system cost
>was about 20% less than this model.
Yup.. ok, ya got me there. This was during the fairly obvious days of
Mac's being more expensive for what you got out of it (20% ?, you are
being nice)
-chris
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