home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nntp.earthlink.net!usenet
- From: psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 08:53:15 GMT
- Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
- Message-ID: <2339.6673T85T1858@earthlink.net>
- References: <4jvvjp$nqu@nyx.cs.du.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: psheffield.earthlink.net
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
-
-
- >psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield) writes:
-
-
- >>>Patrick Sheffield (psheffield@earthlink.net) wrote:
-
- >>Well, it's not a 9500, but it is an 8100 with 64 meg of ram and an ATTO scsi
- >>controller. I'm not referring to the speed of the computer, rather the
- >>/cooperation/ of the OS. I don't know what version your are running, but on
- >>7.5 when I drag a file from one drive to another and the little progress
- >>window comes up, I can't use the finder for anything else until the copy has
- >>completed.
-
- >You can launch additional apps from the Apple menu while the Finder is
- >copying, or if you can get an extension that takes over the copy process
- >from the Finder (SpeedCopy part of SpeedDoubler or CopyDoubler).
-
- Yes, but tho I've not used it, I do hear from a number of sources that
- CopyDoubler may corrupt files...
-
- >>I'm refering to the general availability of software. I just know that when
- >>I walk into a mall software store, the Mac section is pitifully small
- >>compared to the overwhelming mass of PC stuff. And /yes/ I know about mail
- >>order, but this is the same spot the Amiga was in a few years back. I
- >>certainly hope the Mac doesn't fall by the wayside, but I don't discount the
- >>possibility...
-
- >Mac software and before that Apple II software has always been mail
- >order but that never stopped Adobe, Microsoft, LucsArts, Claris, Quark
- >and others from making millions of dollars mail order. It's kind of a
- >dilemna. Mac users are use to going through mail order so when they
- >see the same software costing 20% more locally they buy mail order. The
- >local stores don't make any money off Mac software for this reason so
- >they don't stock Mac titles. Most PC software is also cheaper through mail
- >order but since there are more PC users, there are more that don't know they
- >are getting ripped off. Compare the number of informed PC users who buy
- >PC's locally as compared to those who buy through Computer Shopper.
-
- >If you look at your local stores, you'll see more DOS software than Mac
- >software yet Mac software sells overall are bigger than DOS software sells.
-
- Still, while Mac software has always had a smaller percentage of shelf space
- compared to PC software, I have noticed a overall *decline* in this
- percentage in stores like Egghead, Software etc..., Babbages, whatever.
-
- Patrick Sheffield
-
-