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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmar
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:17:35 GMT
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >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?
-
- I won't comment on the si's except to say that it sounds like someone
- has been unconnecting cords while the power is still on.
-
- The Plusses are all 6-7 year old machines, and you're going
- to have problems with ANY computer that old. With PCs you usually
- don't worry about fixing it, but just "dispose" of it somehow
- and buy a new one.
-
- Todd Walk
- walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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