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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
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- References: <Yf6Iaga00WAx08X4dQ@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov30.162227.8908@u.washington.edu> <palane.723147584@pv7412.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:22:45 GMT
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- In article <palane.723147584@pv7412.vincent.iastate.edu> palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane) writes:
- >In <1992Nov30.162227.8908@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
-
- >> Bullshit. How much is a Mac Classic? I can get a 386/25 for
- >>~$100-150 for motherboard. Capable speed. Monitor -- mono, since
- >>we're talking about a Macintosh, vga, $60. Case/power supply $100.
- >>VGA card -- which has a higher resolution than a mac -- $50. What am
- >>I at? $360? Add a 210 megabyte Hard disk, ~$400-$500. Are our
- >>machines comparable? I doubt it.
-
- >I'd recommend quoting system prices with configuration (Standard or some
- >such other company) as very few people are willing to "roll their own" PC.
- >Basically, a color PC (386/33 or /40 with SVGA, 4MB, and a decent hard
- >drive) runs about $1400. Given the size of software programs, which have
- >grown rather bloated on the PC, anything less than 100 MB is unacceptable.
-
- OK... compare Word 5 on the Mac with W4W 2.0. How big did you say the
- Mac version is? Remember to include _everything_: dictionaries, drawing
- tool, etc. And remember that it doesn't come with Word Art. I don't know
- anyone these days who doesn't at least wish that they had a 100 Meg HD
- on their mac.
-
- >Photostyler is due out for the mac. The others you mention are already avail-
- >able. The advantage you get with the mac that doesn't show up on PC's is
- >system integration. Memory management is one clear case of this. I've spent
- >time screwing around with memory managment and configuration on PCs.
- >On a Mac, memory is memory.
-
- Memory management is actually one really poor feature of System 7. Each
- app gets a fixed stack, and stacks can't slide up and down, so memory
- will get fragmented if you close an app below one that is running. Apps
- that won't fit in either segment won't run even if they will if it were
- one chunk.
-
- Memory problems can be eliminated in PCs by just running Windows apps.
- Just run himem and you're done. Windows doesn't have the fixed stack
- problem Macs do.
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