I reckon that as long as I tell her that I plan to sell it to finance my Mac habit, all should be well. Pray for me, brothers!
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On another note, the LW12/640 turns out to have printed 112,248 pages since 1997. The serviceable life is probably something double or triple that, though, so as it would take me a very, very long time to print another 100,000 pp., I think this printer might just see me through the next decade — not least as, unlike my other two LaserWriters, this one will print over LPR.
It has also survived life for all these years with the stock 4MB of RAM. I gather that it will take a couple of 72-pin SIMMS, however, so in principle, I suspect that it could be taken up to 68MB. We'll see. It printed out a very nice test page on startup even at that.
It is, however, not noticeably quieter than the LaserWriter Pro, but a little lubrication of the fan could perhaps improve matters. Didn't these have a low power feature like their little brothers, the LW4/600s?
On that note, it does remind me very much of the LaserWriter 4/600 I have been using at home for the past couple of years, except that it's Big Brother. And the difference between them really shows up in print speed and connectivity. Given the trade-in discounts that I discovered over on vectronicsappleworld recently and that were available for buyers when the machine was new, it must have cost a bomb.
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On another note, the LW12/640 turns out to have printed 112,248 pages since 1997. The serviceable life is probably something double or triple that, though, so as it would take me a very, very long time to print another 100,000 pp., I think this printer might just see me through the next decade — not least as, unlike my other two LaserWriters, this one will print over LPR.
It has also survived life for all these years with the stock 4MB of RAM. I gather that it will take a couple of 72-pin SIMMS, however, so in principle, I suspect that it could be taken up to 68MB. We'll see. It printed out a very nice test page on startup even at that.
It is, however, not noticeably quieter than the LaserWriter Pro, but a little lubrication of the fan could perhaps improve matters. Didn't these have a low power feature like their little brothers, the LW4/600s?
On that note, it does remind me very much of the LaserWriter 4/600 I have been using at home for the past couple of years, except that it's Big Brother. And the difference between them really shows up in print speed and connectivity. Given the trade-in discounts that I discovered over on vectronicsappleworld recently and that were available for buyers when the machine was new, it must have cost a bomb.