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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <5805.2a6d64c8@hayes.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:38:15 GMT
- References: <D2150035.7sh4j4@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ajross.711133468@husc9> <1992Jul15.115921.14033@msc.cornell.edu> <ajross.711328520@husc9> <5794.2a6ac834@hayes.com> <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
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- In article <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>, 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 do.
-
- > 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.
-
- We're not talking about just pushing diskettes into a drive. We're talking
- about keeping up with all the hardware incompatabilities that are so rampant
- on DOS machines. It takes lots of time and hassle.
-
- > 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)
-
- Three people I know personally. (For their machines at home, no less)
-
- >and its five times faster for real cpu intensive tasks.
-
- You mean five times faster for some reasonably contrived example. WHO CARES??!
-
- What is the senseless obsession with speed? Why are MIPS more important
- than usability? Do you buy a car by looking under the hood for a 600 HP
- engine? Sheesh!
-
- If, tommorrow, I dropped on your desk an infinitely fast DOS machine, you'd
- perhaps be 5% more productive with it. If that.
-
- If, tommorrow, I dropped on your desk a SLOWER machine with much better
- software and applications, your production might double.
-
- I believe that people get too hyped up about speed. Sure, it is pretty
- easy to measure. 33 MHz, is after all, 33 MHz. But what does that really
- mean? Since most personal computers spend 99.9% of their CPU cycles waiting
- for the user to do something, who cares if they do this at 33, 25, 16 or
- even 8 MHz?
-
- >>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.
-
- Granted. But then, there really aren't any OS/2 applications that use
- that consistant OS/2 support, are there?
-
- > I let my boss buy me an IIsi for office and bought myself a 386 for home.
-
- That statement alone reveals much about your character....
-
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