The Macintosh LC II is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from March 1992 to March 1993. The LC II is an update to the original Macintosh LC , replacing its Motorola 68020 processor with a 68030 and increasing the onboard memory to 4 MB. The LC II was priced at US$ 1,699, fully $ 800 less than the original LC when it was introduced.
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32-403: A pizza box is a style of case design for desktop computers or network switches . Pizza box cases tend to be wide and flat, normally 1.5 to 4 inches or 4 to 10 centimetres in height, resembling pizza delivery boxes and thus the name. This is in contrast to a tower system, whose case height is much greater than the width and has an "upright" appearance. In modern usage, the term "pizza box"
48-507: A 10 MB memory limit. These limitations limited the machine's ability to take full advantage of the 68030 CPU. Storage : The LC II shipped with one floppy drive as standard, with options for 40 or 80 MB hard drives. While the original LC had two internal floppy drive connectors, the LC II has one. About 5% of the LC units sold had two floppy drives, and internal hard disks were becoming common by 1992, so
64-698: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Macintosh LC II In September 1992, Apple introduced the Macintosh Performa family of consumer-oriented computers. The LC II was repackaged as the Performa 400. When LC II was replaced by the Macintosh LC III in early 1993, the LC II was discontinued in North America, and two new Performa models (the 405 and 430) were introduced in its place. In October,
80-421: Is normally reserved for very flat cases with height no more than 2 inches (51 mm), while those taller than 2 inches are referred to as desktop cases instead. The common setup of a pizza box system is to have the display monitor placed directly on top of the case, which serves as a podium to elevate the monitor more towards the user's eye level, and to have other peripherals placed in front and alongside
96-654: The NeXTstation , and the Amiga 1000 , but the form factor was also seen in budget and lower-end lines such as the Macintosh LC family . The original SPARCstation 1 design included an expansion bus technology, SBus , expressly designed for the form factor; expansion cards were small, especially in comparison to other expansion cards in use at the time such as VMEbus , and were mounted horizontally instead of vertically. PC-compatible computers in this type of case typically use
112-611: The PCI expansion bus and are usually either a) limited to one or two horizontally placed expansion cards or b) require special low-profile expansion cards, shorter than the PCI ;cards regular PCs use. The density of computing power and stackability of pizza box systems also made them attractive for use in data centers . Systems originally designed for desktop use were placed on shelves inside of 19-inch racks , sometimes requiring that part of their cases be cut off for them to fit. Since
128-424: The Performa 400, 405 and 430 were all discontinued and a new LC II-based model called the Performa 410 was introduced which became Apple's new entry-level computer. The LC II continued to be sold in some markets for some time after that. The LC II was Apple's highest-selling Macintosh product in 1992. The LC II retains the original LC's 16-bit system bus and 10 MB RAM limit, making its performance roughly
144-527: The case. Occasionally, the pizza box may be laid on its sides in a tower-like orientation. With the tagline "Who just fit mainframe power in a pizza box?" in a 1991 advertisement for its Aviion Unix server products, Data General was an early adopter of the expression in advertising, returning to the theme on later occasions. However, such usage was preceded by other occurrences of the expression in print, notably Time's 1989 coverage of Sun Microsystems and its SPARCstation 1 product. The expression
160-461: The late 1990s, pizza boxes have been a common form factor in office cubicles , data centers or industrial applications, where desktop space, rack room and density are critical. Servers in this form factor, as well as higher-end Ethernet switches , are now designed for rack mounting. Rack mount 1U computers come in all types of configurations and depths. The pizza box form factor for smaller personal systems and thin clients remains in use well into
176-422: The same as the earlier model. The main benefit of the 68030 processor in the LC II is its onboard paged memory management unit , which System 7 uses to enable its new virtual memory feature. Apple had opted to get a quick update to the LC out the door instead of spending the additional time required to do a full architectural update, which would happen the following year with the Macintosh LC III . The LC II
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208-694: The second connector was removed. Video : The LC II's logic board has one video RAM slot, which is filled with a 256 KB SIMM as standard; the high-end configuration was shipped with a 512 KB SIMM instead. VRAM SIMMs from the original LC are supported in the LC II. Upgrades : Apple sold a $ 599 upgrade kit that replaced the LC II's logic board with that of the LC III. Introduced March 23, 1992 (and discontinued March 15, 1993): Introduced September 14, 1992: Introduced April 12, 1993: Introduced October 18, 1993: According to Apple, all of these models are obsolete. Pizza box form factor In computing ,
224-539: Was reportedly already in use as early as 1987 to refer to the profile of an expansion unit for the Digital Equipment Corporation VAXmate . Most computers generally referred to as pizza box systems were high-end desktop systems such as Sun's workstations of the 1990s. Other notable examples have been among the highest-performing desktop computers of their generations, including the SGI ;Indy ,
240-520: Was sold at the same time as the Macintosh IIsi , which was more than $ 800 more expensive than the LC II, but did not have its 10 MB memory limit, 16-bit data bus, and mono audio output. The IIsi also includes a NuBus expansion slot that the LC II lacks, and can be powered on via a button on the keyboard, unlike the LC range which has a power switch on the back of the unit. Case : The LC II retains its predecessor's pizza box form factor . The design
256-453: Was updated during the LC II's production run when the auto-inject floppy drive was substituted for a manual-inject unit. The revised front bezel no longer featured the horizontal indentation aligning with the floppy drive, a defining characteristic of the Snow White design language . Logic board : The LC II retains much of the original LC's logic board design, including a 16-bit data path and
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