LC Opinions

[Maccess]

True that the Performa and LC 475 used the same board as the Quadra 605, but the Macs differed according to their intended markets. Most obviously in their cases, wrongly shown in this instance, which does not show The Feets. You have probably caught up with feets by now, and appreciate that it is an iconic and affectionate shared joke in this Army.

That link is a picture of a P/LC475. The Quadra 605 has Feets and a flat top, the LC has a slanted top. The boards are identical except for one resistor which is in a different place in the Quadra 605 in order to give a different Gestalt ID (used by software installers to determine the machine they're being installed on).

I'd say it's a matter of personal preference: Do you prefer a flat top (Quadra 605) or a slanted top (P/LC475)?

All the 040 LCs had manual inject drives, the LCII/LCIII were available with auto-inject and manual inject drives at different times during the model runs. The LC had only auto-inject drives but had two floppy bays (on machines with hard drives, the left bay had a cover shim).

The lower base of the LC is different from the rest of the series. The LCII/III/LC475 had the same lower cases, hence the boards could be interchanged. The top covers differed depending on the floppy drive in the machine.

 

[Devon]

i have 6.0.8L on the LC of mine i recomend it it runs so much better then system 7.

 

[Temetka]

LC's are great little machines.

I used to own an LC475 and I really enjoyed using it.

That being said I would go for a Quadra 605 or even a Centris 660AV over the LC.

I no longer want stack of external equipment hooked up to each of my machines. A 600 with a nice CD drive is a great machine. I prefer the form factor over that of the Q605. To each his own.

 

[Aoresteen]

I've had them all - LC LC II LCIII LC475 Q605.

I'd go with the Q605/475. I have 128MB RAM, ethernet, and a full 040 loaded with a 2 gig internal drive. I have an external SCSI tower with CD, Tape, Syquest, and an 9 gig drive.

It's running at 25 Mhz but I plan to bump it to 33 Mhz (that's the rated speed of my 040)

I would never let the Q605 get away!

I still have an LCIII (I think) that I use with the Apple IIe card.