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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:36:12 GMT
- References: <D2150035.7sh4j4@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ajross.711133468@husc9>
- <1992Jul15.115921.14033@msc.cornell.edu> <ajross.711328520@husc9>
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- Organization: KFA Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <5794.2a6ac834@hayes.com>, bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) says:
- >> {mucho discussion deleted}
- >Huh. Isn't your time worth something? Isn't that part of the reason for
- >buying a computer in the first place -- in order to save you time and
- >hassle to get something done? If the computer creates work instead of
- >diminishing it, then it hasn't fulfilled it's job.
- >
- Depends on who has to pay for the machine. If it`s my boss then you`re right.
- But there are even people out there who repair their cars themselves. I _can_
- install OS/2 or Windoze on an Intel box (i.e. I know how to push in the disks)
- and for some hundred $$$ I do it myself.
-
- >So? What do you have? You have a CPU, Disk, Color display, Sound,
- >printer, modem. Sounds like the IIsi, right? Almost, but not
- >quite.
-
- OK there is no microphone (I never use it on my IIsi) there is no ability to
- put five CRTs on my desk an shuffle the mouse around them (who buys two
- monitors for a 3k machine) and its five times faster for real cpu intensive
- tasks.
-
- >into a network using ARA! Then you'd need network protocols, wouldn't you?
- >How about 32-bit color model in the OS? It's going to be hard to make
- >use of that fancy display without a consistant OS support for the display.
-
- Do we talk about DOS or PC compatible computers in the $3k league ?
- For these machines there IS consistant OS(/2) support for the display.
-
- >At least with the IIsi, you'd have an OS at least. With the list you
- >presented, you don't even have an OS.
- >
- Agreed. Add $100 for an OS.
-
- >Yup. Without good software, your 486 system is going to make a pretty
- >expensive paperweight. Perhaps it won't fair too badly as an inefficient
- >space heater.
-
- And then it could sit there and heat the room together with an $3k IIsi without
- any apps. And again it would have more power :-)
-
- I let my boss buy me an IIsi for office and bought myself a 386 for home.
-
- Michael Bode.
-