Some questions about Mac IIFX

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Add the styling of the upright only version of the venerable IIcx case design, I love the Quadra 700. Dunno about the CD angle though. At the time that was standard, having the first CD as an available option for the 900's brand new case design seems much more significant to me.

How the hell did case design wind up on that horrid Quadra 800 course after the 700 and 900?

 

[Unknown_K]

Never owned a 700, must be missing out.

People bitch about IIfx RAM yet have no issues paying $50 a pop for 4 x 16MB 30 pin SIMMs.

The 800 case isn't that bad for a user who pretty much never opens the thing up anyway (and they were not brittle when new). Has space for CROM, floppy, 2 hard drives (needing a cheap sled) and 3 Nubus cards (plus extra VRAM for the decent onboard video). You can also swap the  top HD bay with a tape drive and appropriate bezel. All in all not that bad.

The 900/950 started the Apple craze of making a huge machine with very little storage space for hard disks, If you have the internal CDROM drive you can add 2 more HD's with those massive mounting brackets. At least the AWS95 and 9150 had the optional 5 drive sled (kinda rare even when new). I kind of wonder if the G5 tower people designed the 900/950 too. Look at the plastic G3/G4 towers you can stick 3-4 drive easy, same with the 8600/9600 series. Even the beige G3 tower had more room then a G5.

The IIci is a legend just because you can stick a 68040 Daystar into it without the need for a rare and pricey adapter. Still you kind of need a decent video card and SCSI card with a CPU upgrade leaving little room for much else.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

G5 wasn't exactly filled with a lot of empty space, cooling the thing was the main priority there.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

The 800 case isn't that bad for a user who pretty much never opens the thing up anyway (and they were not brittle when new).

That carnivorous case was a problem for ASP workers. [] ]'>