Sonnet upgrade

Article:		Penny-Pinching PowerBook
Subject:		Sonnet upgrade
Date:		2003-07-24 08:45:08
From:		phaxda

I actually wrote an email to Sonnet to express my disappointment in the pricing for their PB 1400 upgrades. At one time I'm sure this was a good deal, but now it's just out of line. As others have pointed out already, a complete ibook 700 can be had for just a couple of hundred more. If the Sonnet upgrade was priced at $150 or so, I would buy it. I'm still holding on to my 1400 though--it has the best keyboard. It also makes an excellent emulation machine--I have a gravis gamepad and Atari, Intellivision, Nintendo, MAME, etc. on there. It's on my network and I back up all the important things in the space that's not filled by games. I also like that it has a serial port so I can use my old zip drive. And if I get a floppy disk, I just put it in the 1400.

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Sonnet upgrade
2003-07-25 06:59:33 MSchienle [Reply | View]

Well, having paid $1000 for my NuPower 250 upgrade sometime in mid-1998, I wouldn't be too upset by the price point of Sonnet's upgrade. Of course, I certainly wouldn't pay that price these days.