[WVKayaker]

I bought a 10 MEGABYTE Hyperdrive (GCC) for my first Mac in 1984. It was an internal drive which Apple didn't offer. I paid $2200 +/- installed!

One report I have faith in puts the backlog of orders for 512K upgrades at over 20,000, and further states that the Fat Mac now accounts for 30% of total Mac sales. Judging from the problems I had obtaining a Fat Mac under Apple's editorial program, I can believe it (they get my firstborn son, but it is still a great deal). Once you sit in front of a Fat Mac you're spoiled for life. (For more on that topic, see the Fat Mac review elsewhere in this issue.) Packaged with hard disk, some good 512K software, a set of leather driving gloves, and a case of Pepsi, it will be a tough offer to refuse.

Macintosh sales in general continue to increase, despite the overall industry slump. According to Info World, Apple is now gearing its automated facilities to move production to over 100,000 units a month. According to Time the Mac logged the most successful introduction ever of a new micro. ...

...General Computer unveiled HyperDrive, a compact 10-meg hard disk drive that neatly fits the Macintosh internally. Because the HyperDrive interface logic board is directly connected to the Mac motherboard, both serial ports remain free for modem and printer use--a great convenience. Macs equipped with the unit can boot from either hard disk or floppy.

The system software provided with HyperDriver allows the hard disk to divide into many "virtual disks" which automatically resize themselves to accommodate the user's files. As they interface in parallel, as hard disks ought to, the new units can also transfer data seven times faster than Macs with external hard disk drives.

HyperDRive is available in two models: one including Fat Mac memory expansion to 512K RAM ($2795), and one without memory expansion ($2195). This product will excite many Mac owners, and I hope to give you a definitive hands-on review of this one very soon. Micro-Design Hard Disk -AtariNews

[chris_bdba]

LOL We still have one of those aroud here. It finally died about 2 years ago.

[Richard Kimball]

I remember showing my wife the 5 1/4" floppy and telling her, "You can store like ten books on this thing" and being amazed.

Remembering that this is all speculation here, it makes a lot of sense. Apple is moving towards eliminating all the stuff that increases power consumption and bulk in the laptops. On my daughter's laptop, she uses a USB hub and a wireless mouse, so when she docks, two quick plug ins (power and USB) and everything's docked. You can pick up a high quality external USB burner for less than a hundred, and even people that burn DVDs are less likely to do it when they are away from their docking station.

Also, DVD burners, particularly consumer grade, tend to have a relatively short life span if they're used a lot. This fits into Apple's philosophy of addition by subtraction, removing legacy features that people don't use that much.