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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmar
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:28:47 GMT
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- In article <Truth_Assassin.0r68@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> Truth_Assassin@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Truth Assassin) writes:
- >Cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (chris) Says:
-
- >Well, if you want acceleration, you can adjust the speed setting in
- >software. It can go from very slow to very fast. Perhaps you just haven't
- >looked in the right place.. As for it's having 1 button, owing as the Mac
- >was designed with human interface in mind, and mainly for application
- >oriented software rather than the latest game, 1 button makes sense than 2,
- >or 3 or more.
-
- Actually, Windows only uses the one button too. The second and third
- buttons are sometimes used optionally in some apps (in other words you
- don't have to use them, they're shortcuts).
-
- But there are times when you do need three buttons. Ever try MacX?
- What makes it so painful to use (besides the low res Apple monitors)
- is that the other two "mouse buttons" get put on the keyboard.
-
- >Most major software packages for the Mac have built in help. If you're
- >using System 7, and the application is a System 7 application, you have
- >such a thing known as bubble help, that will pop up help on various
- >commands.
-
- Ah... good old Baboon Help. I must admit its come in useful a couple
- times, usually I just switch it off, as do 99.99% of the Mac users
- I've seen.
-
- >News to me. As for your "inexpensive add-ons" how about support. Do they
- >actually work? And well, in a way you answered your own question. Base macs
- >compared against base P.C.'s.. not base Macs compared against loaded
- >P.c.'s.. is it Apple's fault if so and so does not ship certain systems
- >with "standard" features such as built in networking, etc.?
-
- The loaded PC will cost less than the comparable basic Mac.
-
- As for Mac hardware being superior to clones, why do I see so many
- broken Macs? The mouse controllers on maybe 20% of our Si's have
- gone crazy. (The machines aren't exactly unusable but they do things
- like "press" and "let go" the mouse button when you don't want it
- to. The menus flash on and off and on and off... The machines are
- just over a year old.) I can't even count the number of Mac Pluses
- with burned out video or bad power supplies I've seen. No, mac
- hardware is pretty cheap and manufactured in Taiwan just like the
- clones. And just like the clones, it gets assembled in the states.
- So whats the difference?
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