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- Subject: Re: Macintosh bigots
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.222532.6418@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:25:31 EST
- References: <GERRY.92Nov17180007@onion.cmu.edu> <BxJ24A.K5H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <agr1-_b@rpi.edu> <1ec7l2INN1th@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1ec7l2INN1th@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
- >
- > In a previous article, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) says:
- >
- >>Mac zealots, like mmunson for exmaple, remind me of xian
- >>fundementalists. No matter what evidence you shove in front of their
- >>face, they simply ignore it. Go ahead Mark, enjoy your Mac. It's a
- >>toy computer, but hey, if you like it, then fine. Just don't try to
- >>change the world so that I have to suffer with your religion.
- >>
- > Well maybe I joined this game a bit late and I don't know what you're
- > talking about (and maybe Mr. Roston is correct, I don't know what the
- > discussion is about), but the Macintosh is FAR superior especially if
- > you're talking PeeCees vs. Macs. If the Mac is a "toy" computer, why the
- > hell is everyone in PC-ville trying to copy its OS eh? As far as suffering
- > with religions, we're already suffering the PC religion. Had Apple cloned
- > the Macintosh in 1984, we'd see 1 zillion Macs instead of PCs just becase
- > the Macintosh makes so much more sense. To quote Lee Iacoca:
- > "Just because it makes SENSE."
-
- Oh right. Everyone is going to a GUI. Not everyone is copying
- the Mac. The Mac popularized the GUI which Apple did not invent.
- I can't think of very many things that Mac can do better than a PC but
- I can think of many things PCs do better than Macs at a smaller price.
- And I work with Macs a lot more than PCs.
- The most expensive Quadra with System 7 still can't multitask
- worth mentioning.
-
- -Brad
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