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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <yL0aoB27w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:25:57 BST
- References: <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
- > In article <5794.2a6ac834@hayes.com>, bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) says:
- > >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.
-
- Yeah, well, I can install Windows as well. But now that I've done it about
- ten times, I'm getting a bit pissed off doing it.
-
- Windows seems to have a half-life of about 30 days. Around once a month
- something decays and stops working. This happens even when I don't fiddle
- with it. For example, this month my DOS shells stopped working properly.
- They were causing internal errors in the Clipper compiler. I hadn't touched
- the settings for my DOS shells since the month before, when I last installed
- Windows.
-
- To get my compiler to work again, I had to blast the windows directory and
- reinstall again from scratch. As I say, I have to do this about once a month.
- Each time, it takes me about an afternoon to get everything reinstalled the
- way it was to start with. Fortunately it's not my time; I don't mind being
- paid to watch applications re-installing.
-
- I fiddle with the System on my Mac at home all the time. I go in with
- ResEdit on the System and Finder. I try out all sorts of qool INITs (I
- generally run six or seven of 'em.) In spite of this, the System appears to
- be solid. I often leave the machine booted up for days at a time without
- problems, and I've never had to reinstall the System.
-
- > >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.
-
- Like running Windows, for example. But try seeing how fast your machine is
- at running (say) a complicated Excel spreadsheet under Windows, and compare
- *that* with the Mac.
-
- > >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.
-
- Oh, good. Perhaps you'll tell me where I can get some OS/2 Trident TVGA
- drivers for my Copam B-2430 video card. I'd love to run OS/2 on this $3k PC,
- but I don't want to do it at standard VGA resolution when my video card can
- handle much more.
-
-
- mathew
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