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- Subject: Macs vs. PC's (or... I want the best of both worlds!)
- Message-ID: <92233.140635REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:06:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Maine System
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- Flame retardant suit on? Check!...
- OK- here goes. I love the Mac - for what it was intended as. The
- seemless integration of software & hardware, etc. The fact that even
- Microsoft can write GOOD software for it, etc. Windows and Word for
- Windows are (currently) shallow imitations of the Mac version. Computer
- Associates should be shot for that shoddy piece of shit they pawned off
- as a Windows version of Cricket Graph..... For these reasons (and
- Superpaint, which noone has matched on the PC) I will never forsake the
- MAC (completely).
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- The Mac's weak points are (for the "affordable" models) the inability
- to customize the hardware. Data acquisition on the Mac is as tedious
- as data & report presentation on the PC. Also the dreadfully slow
- execution time. (this normalized to price...) A Mac Clasic II is roughly
- equivalent (in intention) to a 386SX-16. By the time you add an operating
- system, they both run you about $1200. With the PC, you have EXPANSION
- slots, you can make something of it! (OTOH, I'm buying a Clasic II to work
- on my dissertation & research proposals - I still don't own a PC.)
- So, OK. At the low end, Apple has taken a bite out of their prices...
- I understand a Quadra is a $10000 system! For this, I can buy two (yes
- 2) 486/50 EISA systems with 676MB hard drives and truecolor video (on an
- NEC 3FGx)! Come on Apple, your software is good but not that good.
- So, my point? Mac customers had better do some serious looking at
- what they sacrifice in order to obtain such slick & easy use. Why do you
- let Apple charge you so much for so little? I think Win32 (NT for PC's)
- is going to put a serious dent in Apple's profit margin. It's too bad,
- from a programmer's poin of view, the 68000 family is a better
- architecture than the 80x86!
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