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- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001641.216@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:16:41 -0700
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- Organization: Brigham Young University
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- Well, let me clarify a point I tried to make in my earlier posting on this
- line of thought. I still LIKE the atari 800, Apple II+, (I never really was in
- love with the Commodore 64...), I am just glad to have a much more capable
- machine. Like I said, when I go home I can play a game off of a floppy that I
- bought six or more years ago for my Atari 800. It STILL works. Geez, if I look
- in my disk boxes now and see a disk more than a few months old I just KNOW
- that I am going to get a disk error! Gee, if I dug deep down in my junk
- boxes at my parents house, I could find my floppies from nine years ago for the
- Apple II+ and Commodore 64, and the would probably still work! They are
- definitely not disfunctional machines at all. What worked fine for me then
- hasn't stopped working just because it is now old. It's just that now we have
- moved on to bigger and sometimes better things. Instead of Player-Missle
- graphics we have Quickdraw. We don't have to remember all those damned Peeks
- and Pokes. We now don't have just a choice between HiRes and LowRes graphics.
- We don't have to use BASIC now by default. I enjoy the power of today's apps
- that just couldn't be done that easily back then. I guess that's progress. AS
- far as buying computers, I must admit that I too find it tempting to want to
- wait just a while longer to get that machine that is just a little faster or
- a little cheaper. I just decided I wanted a Mac, and I chose the one I thought
- would suit my needs. I bought a IIsi. I paid a LOT of money for my system. I
- could have had a 50 MHz 486 system for LESS. Now for the same money I could
- have a faster and greater Mac, but who cares? I love my machine. My IIsi is
- great! I have had the pleasure of its use for more than a year, and if I had
- waited I would not have been able to do nearly the things I have done since I
- got my machine. While I still do feel pangs of envy at times at the mention of
- a Quadra 950 or whatever, I don't feel bad about having "just" a IIsi at all.
- to me, those who always have to have the fastest and grandest of it all are
- fools. They will sell their IIsi for a big loss to get a IIci, then sell that
- for a big loss to get a Q-700, then sell that for a loss to get a Q-950, then
- when Apple comes up with their next thing... They lose lots of money and
- usually don't accomplish any more with their machines than they would have if
- they had just allowed themselves to be satisfied with their machines. Now,
- for me my little rule is this: one or two times faster than my machine is
- nothing. I don't care one bit until they start selling machines that are at
- least 10 times as fast. When I can get a PowerPC for real cheap that is
- beaucoup faster than my IIsi then I will think about it. But when it finally
- comes, I will be ready to say good-bye to the mac and embrace the new
- technology with open arms. That's progress.
-
- Seth Leigh
- BYU Physics Dept.
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