I was re-capping one yesterday, and it hit me.

Bam, Everything you need is on this tiny PCB.

I mean heck if flash had come along sooner, I'm sure they would have soldered a couple hundred meg's of flash on there too.

A nice socket , ready for a 68882, preferably a 33mhz one, then you can take the cpu up to 33mhz with moving that one 000 Ohm Resister.

or just leave it be, A 25mhz 68030, capable of: 832 x 624 @ 16bit /w 256k more of vram.

I mean as a mac running vintage apps, /w System 7 installed... What more could you want?

It was well made, very upgradeable, quite inexpensive (compared to other mac's)

LC III introduced 1993.02.10 at $1,350

I mean this thing really rocked socks!

The IIci was defiantly a bad to the bone machine! Yes with out a doubt! especially with a cache card installed!

But it was, big,

Had nifty nubus slots!

Super expensive, $8,800 with 40 MB hard drive

Stuck at 25mhz

And sucked down 159 Watts of power compared to the LC-III Sipping a mere 50 watts.

It just seems to me, the LC-III was like a sit down had happened, and they really tryed to have a WWSJD moment, and this is what the came up with.

It's really a quite nice machine. And not to mention the LC-III even has a mic in port