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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
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- References: <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <yL0aoB27w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1992Jul23.143042.14243@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <14832@claris.com> <1992Jul24.143921.19730@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:21:18 GMT
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- In <1992Jul24.143921.19730@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:
-
- >The reason I ask people like you to post what they have is to see if you
- >are espousing that the macs are worth the extra cost when they haven't
- >actually bought a mac for themselves. It doesn't sound right to me when
- >people say how much the mac is worth the extra money when their company
- >was the one who had to put out the dough.
-
- What Mac and what extra dough? Before we decided to get PCs here, I wrote
- up a proposal for Macs to do the same job, so I know what the relative
- costs are. The PCs ended up costing a lot more because there's no such
- thing as a standard for large-screen monochrome monitors on a PC. We
- needed two-page monitors, and the nonstandard monochrome monitors that
- were available wouldn't work with our software, so we ended up having
- to get much more expensive color monitors instead. The fabled cost
- advantage of the PC went up in smoke right there.
-
-
- >Also it would show that those people who have bought mac systems
- >comparable to the 386 systems I have described have a much bigger
- >wallet than the average person and that cost may not be a priority
- >to them.
-
- Unfortunately, you keep insisting that the Mac that is "comparable
- to a 386" is the IIsi, or even the IIcx. It's not. For graphics
- (that is, windowing) performance, the machine that compares most
- closely to your 386 is probably the LC. You insist on comparing
- hardware specs (this is a 32-bit processor, that's a 32-bit processor;
- this is 20-Mhz, that's 20-MHz) instead of actual software performance.
-
- >And again I'll restate the point of my posts is that macs cost
- >too much. The 2 to 3 times the cost to a corresponding PC system
-
- Not only are your "corresponding PC systems" not equivalent,
- but the cost differential is often negative.
-
-