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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 13:36:37 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine) writes:
-
- >In article <1996Mar31.120302.53727@cobra.uni.edu>,
- >sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) wrote:
-
- >For heaven's sake - what does it matter? The Mac is without question the
- >worst personal computer on the market. There was no advance whatsoever
- >made with the PPC being introduced to that platform. The first time I
-
- No advance? The PowerMacs are cheaper, have better sound hardware, faster
- i/o (the serial ports alone are capable of 2Mb's/sec), better software
- support, faster graphics hardware, faster and better supported busses (PCI)
- and the list goes on.
-
- >opened a mac I laughed my head off. There was all this space that was not
- >made use of. Not much in the way of expansion - and even though there was
- >all of this unused real estate - there was no provision made for adding
- >more drives. I can open my Amiga and A SparcStation - and most PC's for
-
- So can I, it's a simple matter of plugging in a hard drive and attaching
- a SCSI cable. Since the Mac II in 1987 there has always been a Mac
- available wth plenty of internal docks and plenty of slots for additional
- cards whether it be the Mac II with 6 Nubus slots or the 9500 with 6 PCI
- slots.
-
- >that matter and without any major surgery add another drive or
- several
- >other items because the machines were well thought out. I remember Dave
-
- The user has a choice to buy a Mac with whatever expansion options they
- think they need. Just because you couldn't figure out how to add an
- internal hard drive/PCI card/ Nubus card or whatever isn't anyones fault
- but your own.
-
-
- >Haynie himself commenting on how poor a design the Mac is - and that is
- >just on the low level hardware side. There are serious problems with the
-
- Imagine that, a creator of a competitor to the Mac downing yjr competition.
- Bill Gates also says that Win95 is the greatest thing since slice bread.
-
-
- >OS as well (need we mention all those patches you load into the system
- >each time you boot?)
-
- What's wrong with that? It's the standard mechanism to allow Apple and
- third party developers to add and update individual features of the OS.
-
- > I have friends and co-workers who have worked for
- >Apple. There is much of nothing to be said for apple on a technical level
- >- there is no technical level in a mac. It's all hype. The Amiga SHOULD
- >be more expensive than the mac.
-
- How is an '040 based Amiga with pitiful 8-bit sound flickering slow
- graphics hardware, no software support, a dead-end slow processor,
- technically better than the Mac?
-
- >.trog--
-