Macworld, July 1st, 1993
Apple's $1,349 Macintosh LC III is an inexpensive, speedy addition to the LC line. Its pizza-box design is equipped with a 25MHz 68030 processor, 4Mbytes of RAM that can be expanded to 36Mbytes and 512K of video RAM. There is also an FPU socket but only one empty VRAM SIMM slot. The LC III has a 32-bit bus to accommodate its 32-bit processor, which enables it to perform twice as fast as the LC II as well as the Color Classic. With no built-in FPU, the LC III is slower than the IIci. The LC III cannot boot from third-party disaster recovery emergency disks or anything older than System 7.1, and...
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